You've probably heard it before :"All disease starts in the colon". If this is true, then your colon is one of the most important organs in your body - perhaps the most important. It should follow then, that maintaining a healthy colonic condition is an important part of sustaining long term health.
"According to the Royal Society of Medicine U.K - 90% of all chronic diseases are due to infection of the gastrointestinal tract"
The reason for the potential of disease starting in the colon, has to do with the way the colon itself functions . All of the foods we eat, are to some degree stored in this area. After we eat them, the nutrients in those foods are then released into other areas of the body. What isn't used by the body is retained in the colon.
We only eliminate some of what is left in the colon through regular bowel movements, so this means every now and then the colon needs a thorough cleansing.
Those with an irregular bowel movement keep more junk in their systems than those who are more regular. So, food residue can accumulate inside our colon for years thus turning it into a potential source for the introduction of disease - causing bacteria.
To guard against this potential for disease, cleansing the colon and cleansing it regularly, becomes imperative, especially for those with a history of junky eating habits.
Constipation may not be regarded by many as anything serious, because symptoms of poisoning resulting from constipation do not necessarily appear at once. Because they do not immediately appear, does not mean no harm is being done.
(All of us know someone who seems able to defy all the rules of healthy living and remain standing. How about Keith Richards?)
In London, at a discussion on the subject of alimentary toxemia before the Royal Society of Medicine, Dr. William Hunter remarked that the fact that chronic constipation "might exist in certain individuals as an almost permanent condition without apparently causing ill health is due solely to the power and protective action of the liver. It is not any evidence of the comparative harmlessness of constipation per se, but only an evidence that some individuals possess the cecum( the large pouch, closed at one end, that forms the beginning of the large intestine) and the colon of an ox, with the liver of a pig, capable of doing any amount of detoxication."
From an accumulation of evidence backed up by the authority of nearly 60 eminent English physicians and many hundreds of other English, U.S., German and French physicians we can no longer ignore the importance of alimentary toxemia or autointoxication as a fact in the production of disease. It may be said that almost every chronic disease known originates directly or indirectly from the influence of bacterial poisons absorbed from the colon.
The colon is a sewage system, but by neglect and abuse it becomes a cesspool. When it is clean and functioning well, our qualiy of life is enhanced. When neglected and stagnating, it can facilitate the movement of poisons of decay, fermentation and putrefaction, into the blood, poisoning the brain and nervous system. As well, it can poison the heart, lungs, and digestive organs. And thus our quality of life is diminished.
In view of this information it becomes vitally important to our self and every member of our family to maintain healthy functioning of the colon, and to be attentive to bowel regularity.
You can cleanse the colon in many ways, through fasting (which most prefer not to do), through eating and drinking only fresh fruit, fresh fruit juices, and water for a day or two a month, by having a colonic every now and then (by a certified health care professional), or by taking a daily colon cleanser that is mild, but does what it needs to do to solve the problem. The last one is the most preferred in our modern, contemporary society.
If you want to look better, feel better, and lose weight, start with your colon. Cleansing the colon is a great way to begin your health program.
Author Resource:-
Bruce Goodsir is a public relations graduate who has for many years taken an interest in health and environmental issues. 2bwell.allinonehealth.com
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