Should you take a fiber supplement?

There’s a bottle of fiber supplements sitting on the corner of my desk, yet I haven't opened it in months. Is that a mistake?

TIME contributor Perri Ormont Blumberg asked experts exactly what fiber supplements are, who needs to take them, and how to pick a good one.

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