When I was growing up my Mum called it roughage, and it was green and apparently good for you. I have to give it to her, my Mum was right, fibre is good for us; as hard training athletes we should be even more concerned with fibre than the average Joe.
Why? Fibre is essential to keep that long muscular tube that starts at our mouths and end at our bottom in tip top working order. If our gastro-intestinal tract doesn't work properly then we don't get what we should from our food, and our bodies don't work quite right. Optimum performance comes from diet, but a perfect diet only works if we get what we need out of it, and to get the best from our food we need our inside bits to be working properly.

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