Indigestible means that your digestive enzymes can't break fiber down. However, the structure of dietary fiber is altered when you chew, and some is digested by bacteria in your colon. Other fiber passes through your body mostly unchanged.
It began after the Civil War, and â¦was originally known as Decoration Day. Memorial Day started to be used more in the early years of the 20th century, and by the post WW II years, it was universally known as Memorial Day.
Follow @TIME. Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, conjuring images of picnics, barbecues or just a lazy day off. But originally the holiday was charged with deeper meaning â and with controversy. The exact origins of Memorial Day are disputed, with at least five towns claiming to have given birth to the holiday sometime near the end of the Civil War.