Question: What is FiberLife?
Answer: FiberLife is a proprietary, highly viscous soluble fiber blend from Lifestyles that supplements the body’s dietary deficiency of fiber.

Question: How does FiberLife work?
Answer: Once ingested with plenty of water, FiberLife forms a gel-like complex of natural fibers. In fact, FiberLife has the greatest viscosity (gelling capacity) of any dietary fiber. This complex slows down the digestion of food, reduces the absorption of sugar and calories, and creates a sense of fullness without impacting your energy levels.

Question: What is viscosity?
Answer: Viscosity is a measure of the thickness of a liquid substance. When evaluating soluble fiber, it is the viscosity of the gel that forms when mixed with water that provides therapeutic value.

Question: What are the primary benefits of FiberLife?
Answer: The key benefits of FiberLife ingredients are:
• it can help regulate your appetite to help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight
• it can help regulate your energy levels by lowering the Glycemic Index of a meal to stabilize the release of sugars into your blood stream
• it can help to lower your cholesterol level and eliminate body toxins

Question: What is the Glycemic Index (GI)?
Answer: The Glycemic Index (GI) is a measure of how certain foods affect your blood sugar levels.

Question: Why is the Glycemic Index (GI) important?
Answer: High-GI foods, such as fast and processed foods, are rapidly digested and cause sharp spikes in your blood sugar levels. This can damage your health and also contribute to weight gain, as you will soon be hungry and low on energy. Conversely, low-GI foods are slowly digested, causing a gradual and sustained increase in your blood sugar level.

Question: How does FiberLife help with the Glycemic Index?
Answer: FiberLife helps lower the overall Glycemic Index of a meal, thus ensuring that food is more slowly digested and blood sugar levels are regulated.

Question: What other benefits can you expect from using FiberLife?
Answer: Since the ingredients in FiberLife can help you reduce and control your weight, you may experience the many related health benefits that come with lower body weight.

Question: What research exists to support the benefits of FiberLife?
Answer: There are countless clinical trials published in peer-reviewed journals that prove soluble fiber’s varied health benefits. Please speak with your Distributor or visit www.lifestyles.net for more information.

Question: If I don’t need to lose weight, do I still need FiberLife?
Answer: Yes, since FiberLife helps to address the dietary deficiency for fiber. According to health authorities, adults should be consuming at least 30 g of fiber each day; however, a majority of people consume less than half that amount through regular diet alone.

Question: What is soluble fiber?
Answer: Soluble fiber dissolves and thickens in water. Soluble fiber is probably best known for its cholesterol-lowering effect. Soluble fiber is made up of sticky substances like gums and pectin, which form a gel-like substance in the presence of liquid. Cholesterol that is stored in the blood is used to produce bile acids; and therefore, as the gel binds the cholesterol and bile acids in the small intestine, it is eliminated from our body with regular bowel movements. This action of gelling and binding is also responsible for soluble fiber’s ability to promote a feeling of fullness. In contrast, insoluble fiber is the “roughage” in our diet that helps promote a healthy digestive system.

Question: Why is FiberLife so potent?
Answer: FiberLife is a blend of naturally-occurring water-soluble fibers that together can absorb hundreds of times their weight in water. FiberLife’s blend has a water-binding capacity that is many times greater than glucomannan alone and tenfold greater than other soluble fibers such as psyllium, flax seeds, or guar gum. It’s FiberLife’s unique blend of specific fibers in specific ratios that make FiberLife so potent. This means that smaller doses of FiberLife can have greater beneficial health effects than other fibers, as well as supporting safe, sustainable weight loss – in other words, a small amount of FiberLife is equivalent to a large of other fibers.

Question: What are the directions for using FiberLife?
Answer: Take 1 to 2 capsules prior to each meal with 250 - 500 mL of water with each capsule, up to 3 times per day. Make sure you consume in total at least 3 L of water per day.

Question: How should I incorporate FiberLife into my lifestyle?
Answer: Whenever increasing fiber intake, it is important to start slowly and increase as your body adjusts. Begin by taking 1 capsule daily with 250 - 500 mL of water. After a few days, take 1 capsule twice daily, each with 250 - 500 mL of water. Continue to add 1 capsule every few days until you reach the recommended dose or a dose your body is comfortable with.

Question: Can children take FiberLife?
Answer: Fiber is essential for children’s health as well. However, due to its high potency and powerful gelling capacity, it is recommended that only children 13 years of age and older take FiberLife. Thirteen is the age individuals are considered adult from a nutrition point-of-view.

Question: Do I need to take FiberLife every day?
Answer: For best results, it is essential that FiberLife be taken consistently on a daily basis.

Question: Why is drinking water so important?
Answer: Since FiberLife absorbs many times its own weight in water, not enough water will cause FiberLife to become so viscous that it is essentially a hard ball in our digestive tract. This can lead to constipation. However, with plenty of water, a nice smooth gel forms, which does the opposite – eases constipation and promotes bowel regularity.

Question: How does FiberLife interact with prescription/non-prescription drugs and other supplements?
Answer: If you take any medications and/or supplements, it is recommended that you take them at least one hour before taking FiberLife. This will help ensure that both your  medication and FiberLife can work effectively.

Question: Are there any side-effects when taking FiberLife?
Answer: For normal people who are following the directions for use, there should not be any side-effects. However, as with any soluble fiber product, if insufficient amounts of water are taken, constipation may result. Also, for those who currently lack fiber in their diet, fiber should be added slowly or else some gastrointestinal discomfort (such as gas and bloating) may result.