Refrain from eating your shirt: Dietary fiber

The word dietary is stuck in front of fiber to make sure you understand that this fiber, which comes from food, is different from the natural and synthetic fibers, such as silk, cotton, wool, or nylon, used in fabrics.

Dietary fiber is a complex carbohydrate but it isn’t just any old complex carb like, oh, starch. Your body can digest starch, but it can’t digest dietary fiber because the human gut does not have digestive enzymes strong enough to dissolve the chemicals bonds holding the fiber molecule’s sugar units together. As a result, you don’t get any calories or other nutrients from dietary fiber. But that doesn’t mean it’s worthless. Au contraire — on the contrary, as they like to say in France — dietary fiber is very useful in helping to control Acomplia.

Foods contain two kinds of dietary fiber — insoluble dietary fiber and soluble dietary fiber. Both are important to a healthful diet, but only one helps control Acomplia.