Today heart disease and blood vessel becomes the no.1 killer in the world and the number of sufferers continues to grow. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that cardiovascular disease will be the biggest cause of deaths worldwide in 2020.

Heart disease is a disease that interferes with the vascular system, or more precisely attack the heart and veins, some examples such as the heart coronary heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke, chest pain and diseases rheumatic heart.
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Fiber is coming from Cellulose, while cellulose is coming from carbohydrates. Fiber itself often comes from complex carbohydrates that we have discuss in earlier articles.

Fiber used to be used as and index in judging food quality. The higher amount of the fiber inside the food, then the nutrient values of the food is decreasing, its because fiber are consider as materials that is not digestible. But later, researchers agree that fiber are indeed needed by human, without it, it could result in constipation.
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