{"id":90110,"date":"2026-10-04T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90110"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T00:52:07","slug":"fibre-or-protein-which-is-more-important-its-about-balance-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=90110","title":{"rendered":"Fibre or protein \u2013 which is more important? \u2018It\u2019s about balance,\u2019 experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/02\/3a94b4bf-1495-428a-a308-790597360b22_b0825e73.jpg?itok=V4CHW8V0&amp;v=1790912819\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Should we focus on eating <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">enough protein<\/span> each day and hitting our targets, or should fibre be the priority for gut health and well-being?<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">To answer these questions, we spoke to two dietitians, who shared their expert advice and explained how protein and fibre can complement each other.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cBoth are important,\u201d says Dr Linia Patel, a UK-based women\u2019s health dietitian, performance nutritionist and author. \u201cIt comes back to this idea that nutrition is never about nutrients in isolation. We see from evidence when we look at whether it\u2019s longevity data or just weight management data \u2013 it\u2019s about dietary pattern and it\u2019s about balance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3369511\/fibre-or-protein-which-more-important-its-about-balance-experts-say?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should we focus on eating enough protein each day and hitting our targets, or should fibre be the priority for gut health and well-being? To&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[598,377,888,1703,20602],"class_list":["post-90110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-balance","tag-experts","tag-fibre","tag-important","tag-protein","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}