Isn't it true that for a successfully 'clean' diet you must eat foods rich in fiber?
All I ever hear mentioned is protein and complex carbs, but what about fiber foods?

Look at the food pyramid.There are two main types of carbohydrate - complex and simple. Complex carbohydrates include starch and fibre (read the content on your food labels). Simple carbohydrates include sugars.

You need Protein + Complex Carbs (including fibre) + Healthy Fats not just Protein as some think regardless of whether you want to slim, gain or maintain. There are nutrition stickies above in the forum which you can have a quick look at.

As a supplement to what tribal has said, foods that otherwise fit your dietary criteria and contain fibre > (are greater/better than) foods that otherwise fit your dietary criteria and do not contain fibre.

Since almost all nutritional advice around here includes getting plenty of whole vegetables, fruits, and grains, fibre is generally not mentioned, as that would be redundant - most of these foods are good sources of fibre. And when eaten as a primary source of nutrients (in conjunction with lean proteins of course), will usually suffice to meet your need for roughage.

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Carbohydrates:

Pop a Chill Pill and reel in the brain cells like you would a fish:

The Human Brain - Carbohydrates

What are Carbohydrates?

What You Need to Know Before You Start a Low Carbohydrate Diet
(and other info)

Carbohydrates
(this one may be a tad over-kill for the average person)

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Some info on Protein:

John Berardi - Protein Super Feature

Everything you need to know about protein

Protein: Nutrition Source, Harvard School of Public Health

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Some info on Fats:

What You Need to Know about Fat and Your Family's Diet - Family Articles - Kaboose.com


Fats 101: How to tell Good Fats and Bad Fats


Fats, Fish Oil and Omega-3-Fatty Acids - Cholesterol Information Produced by Doctors For Patients Experiencing High Cholesterol Levels

(and other GOOD info)

Fat

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Some info on Fiber:

Dietary Fiber

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Chillen

The post was about fiber.

I guess what I meant was that lots of the food we come into contact with are over-processed and striped of fiber. Are foods that have labels such as "Double Fiber" add more substance to your "Clean Diet"?

Depends on how much doubling they do. I buy a double fiber bread that has 5g fiber per slice. All other regular wheat breads have 3. So that does add extra to my intake.

But if its a piece of double fiber white bread (if they even have that) that has 2g fiber instead of the regular 1, then it is not really an improvement.

I am an excellent Fiber consumer because each bread slice I digest has a total of 6 grams! Haha, beat that!

What type of bread do you buy?

I do buy Mission Carb Balance Wraps and they are 21g per wrap. Beat that homie.

Ooooo, I just got served.

like biscuits and gravy

me hungry, dood.

I havent had good biscuits and gravy in so long. Especially after I found out how mom makes the gravy for it. That and my mom lives 800 miles away of course.

Me niether...mm...I wonder if there's a HEALTHY -ALTERNITIVE!

doubt it, since the gravy is made from the sausage grease and flour

you spelled alterAtive wrong