How Cellulose Is Beneficial For Our Body?

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How Cellulose Is Beneficial For Our Body?
Cellulose is supplied principally by vegetables and fresh fruits. Ii gives to the intestinal contents the balk necessary to stimulate peristaltic action. For this reason a certain amount of it is necessary each day in the diet. When the roughage is lacking, constipation, digestive troubles and auto-intoxication are usually the result. Bran is an excellent roughage. It can be used raw, baked or in the form of bread, or muffins or chapatties.

The curse of the age is the over-refinement of foods by which they are deprived of the most essential of their constituents; processes have been devised and machinery invented to remove husks, skin, shells, integuments and external parts so that only the soft, internal and least valuable parts were offered to the public.

We have for years concentrated in analyzing food into Protein, Carbohydrates, Fats and Cellulose. No attention was paid to anything else. Many decades we have been throwing away and wasting the most essential constituents of foods, namely Vitamins and Minerals.
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