| Having regular constipation can lead to some serious | | | | make the bowels move freely. Concentrated food |
| illnesses. Fecal matter should move through your colon | | | | (processed foods) and constipation go hand in hand, |
| easily and in a short time. When fecal matter remains | | | | (and) then pills (laxatives) are used. More constipation |
| in your colon for days, your colon becomes toxic and | | | | and more pills, it is a vicious circle with bad results. Don't |
| spreads this toxicity into every part of the body. In the | | | | be afraid of cracked wheat, cornmeal, cut oats, raw |
| bloodstream, these toxins interfere with the deliver of | | | | cabbage, onions and celery. They are far better than |
| oxygen to the cells and tissues of your body. If you | | | | refined flour and the package foods that flood the |
| have to strain and squeeze to have a bowel | | | | market. They may save some labor in the kitchen, but |
| movement, you can damage the tissues in the lower | | | | they produce constipation." Today, it is well accepted |
| part of your colon and the blood vessels in your legs. In | | | | by nutritionists, Naturopathic doctors, and other |
| the Past Over 90 years ago and more, doctors knew | | | | alternative medicine practitioners, that constipation is a |
| about the importance of a clean colon. In 1908 Eli | | | | signal that cannot be ignored and your colon function |
| Metchnifoff, director of the Pasteur Institute, was | | | | must be kept efficient and well functioning. To ignore |
| awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine. His research | | | | constipation for long periods of time can lead to some |
| showed that pathogenic colon bacteria, bad bacteria (I | | | | serious illnesses. Mostly likely you will not live to be a |
| will cover this in a later chapter) produced toxic | | | | ripe old age and if you do it will be with some disability. |
| secretions and by products, which acted as slow | | | | Constipation is a symptom you cannot ignore - even if |
| poisoning of the entire body. Metchnifoff believed that | | | | it occurs only occasionally -because it leads to slow |
| toxic matter coming from your colon was responsible | | | | poisoning of your entire body. Many doctors, for a |
| for every degenerating disease. His belief was so | | | | longtime, have refused to believe that constipation can |
| strong that he suggested that man's life span was | | | | cause other parts of the body to become weaken |
| certainly cut in half when his colon was neglected and | | | | and become unable to perform their function. You will |
| allowed to have excessive toxic producing bacteria. In | | | | still find Internet articles, anatomy books, and health |
| 1931 Dr. Joseph H. Greer, was telling his patients what | | | | books suggesting that for some people bowel |
| to do to end constipation and how to prevent it. Today, | | | | movements in 3 days or more can be normal. You do |
| nutritionists and other health practitioners are telling their | | | | not have to wait for a disease to take hold of your |
| clients the same thing. In his small book, The Drugless | | | | body so doctors can see you are ill. Take responsibility |
| Road to Perfect Health, 1931, Joseph H. Greer, M.D. | | | | for your health and don't let constipation become a |
| reminds his patients, "You must have 'roughage' to | | | | reoccurring condition. |