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adjl posted...

I mean, medicine doesn't really care what's realistic. If 14g/1000 calories is what's ideal to ensure people get the health benefits of an adequately fibrous diet, that's going to be true regardless of how much people struggle to fit that much into their diet. Those challenges dictate how exactly doctors need to make those recommendations, but they don't change the recommendations themselves.

The question is where they derived this from, since this would.mean evolutionary wise, this is adequate amount of run a human body at its best. Which cannot be right, given the stunning differences in historical diets throughout the ages, many which would never have been able to hit anywhere close to these needed amounts. As we already know there's no such thing as a one-size that fits all bodies for diets, it's interesting how they arrived to that number. The recommended intakes are incredibly broad, after all.

Also, for all suggesting multivitamins/Metamucil, it just proves the point that hitting the needed fiber allotment isn't realistic without a rigorous diet focused towards acquiring it. Which is why I picked fiber for thos topic, as it's definitely stingier to acquire in needed amounts than other vitamins, minerals, protein, etc.