High Fiber Foods

If you want to improve your health, focusing on high fiber foods is a good start. Getting enough dietary fiber every day not only helps your digestion, it may may also help reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
The Mayo Clinic does a nice job of explaining the health benefits in greater detail.

If you are trying to reduce your carbon footprint, environmental benefits can be just as significant. Dietary fiber comes exclusively from plant foods. By eating more of them, in their freshest (local and seasonal), least processed forms, you make the best choices for your body and the planet, at the same time.

How Much Is Enough?
The Mayo Clinic recommends 21 to 25 grams a day for women, and 30 to 38 grams a day for men.
But some nutrition experts, such as Brenda Watson (seen on her PBS health series, The Fiber35 Diet ), recommend 35 grams a day for everyone.

The average American, eating mostly processed foods and meat-based dishes, gets as little as 14 grams a day.

Tips to Increase Dietary Fiber
1. Switch from highly processed grains to whole grains
2. Pick fresh, whole fruits and vegetables over processed, packaged dishes
3. Find your baseline and make changes you can keep
4. Learn which foods are best, and base your meals around them.
5. Snack!
6. Add soluble fiber sprinkles, if and when you need to.

Recipes
Gourmet Popcorn - make your own, avoid the chemical coating
Fruit Smoothie - low fat and naturally delicious.
Tuscan Bean Dip
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Other Healthy Snacks
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Easy vegetarian meals (featuring high fiber foods)