Soluble fiber, as its names suggests, is fiber that dissolves in water. Soluble fiber is the type that is thought to lower cholesterol. We can obtain soluble fiber by eating oatmeal, barley, citrus fruits and dried beans. Having a high fiber diet that contains soluble fiber is thought to help with weight loss.t is more commonly known as roughage. The advantage of including roughage into a high fiber diet is that it helps in preventing colon cancer. Insoluble fiber has also shown great benefits in helping to prevent diverticulosis.
Active immunity. Definition. noun. A type of immunity or resistance developed in an organism by its own production of antibodies in response to an exposure to an antigen, a pathogen or to a vaccine.Supplement.ctive immunity is generally long-term and can be acquired by infection followed by B cells and T cells activation, or artificially acquired by vaccines, in a process called immunization. Thus, an active immunity often involves humoral immunity (B-cells) and cell-mediated immunity (T-cells).
Immunity may be passive or active. In passive (def) immunity, antibodies (def) made in another person or animal enter the body and the immunity is short-lived. With active (def) immunity, antigens (def) enter the body and the body responds by making its own antibodies and B-memory cells (def).ith artificially acquired active immunity, one is immunized with one or more of the following: 1. Attenuated microbes (see Fig. 1) Attenuated microbes (def) are living, non-virulent strains of a microbe. Viruses are attenuated by growing them in non-human cells until they mutate and adapt to the non-human host.