The health ministry recommends you eat 20–30g of dietary fibre a day for optimum health. (Envato Elements pic)PETALING JAYA: You decide to eat healthier. Overnight, you swap white rice for brown rice, replace your usual kaya toast with multigrain cereal for breakfast, eat extra vegetables with your nasi campur for lunch and devour a bowl of dhal with your naan dinner.
By evening, your stomach feels tight, windy and uncomfortable. Wasn’t healthy eating supposed to make you feel better?
Before giving up, consider that you may have increased your fibre intake too abruptly.
Dietitians encourage people to eat enough fibre. But reaching that goal also means finding the right amount, pace and combination of foods their digestive system can comfortably manage.
