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eth0up04/24/20251 replyview on HN

If anyone is willing, please help me understand, not why, but how someone can subsist on a diet with zero fiber. I know folks who can sit down to a plate of nothing more than white rice and meat without petrifying their backside. If I tried to do the same, I'd be using solvents and chipping hammers every morning. Have I missed something? Is this a 99% absorption rate diet? Where does it go?


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sixplusone04/24/2025

Fiber is not necessary, and can be the cause of constipation. Your body has ways of managing, and individuals who don't eat fiber have more motility:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3435786/

"Stopping or reducing dietary fiber intake reduces constipation and its associated symptoms"

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