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The
Health of Our
Colon
Determines the Health of Our Body
By
now, most of us know the nutrition we take into our body is a vital
factor in determining our health ... how we feel, how effectively our
body heals itself and how long we live. On the flip side of that coin
there is a factor of equal - if not greater - importance that is
sometimes completely overlooked and nearly always underestimated.
This
often un-discussed area of health maintenance concerns the elimination
of waste and toxins from our body. While it is practically impossible to
overestimate the importance of putting good things into our body, it is
more likely that we will underestimate the importance of getting the bad
things out of our body.
Digestive
Enzymes are an all natural solution to constipation. Using
Digestive Enzymes will keep you regular and your colon healthy.
It
was Henry Wheeler Shaw who said, "A good reliable set of bowels is
worth more to a man than any quantity of brains."
All
cells must take in nutrients to maintain their metabolism and their
life. As an end result of this metabolism, every one of our
approximately 140 trillion cells also must produce waste material. To
maintain optimal health, we must eliminate this waste efficiently. Every
cell and every organ in our body eliminates waste and is effected by
waste elimination from the body as a whole.
It
is up to our colon to eliminate the bulk of the most toxic and putrid
waste in our body. When we obtain energy from the food we eat, we create
a waste product (feces) that should be eliminated within 24 hours or
less. But with a meat-based, high-fat, low-fiber diet, the average
American has a transit time of 72 to 96 hours, meaning this waste begins
a toxic build-up that creates numerous problems for the colon and every
other part of the body. If it is not quickly eliminated, fecal matter in
the colon turns into a toxic and putrid waste that is absorbed into the
rest of our system. Over the course of time, this effects the
functioning of every cell and organ in our body. It poisons the blood,
lymphatic system, nervous system and brain, while clogging up the heart,
vascular system, lungs and sinuses.
A
proper diet is one that provides necessary nourishment for the body, and
facilitates proper
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Most
colons have become stagnant cesspools, collecting layers and
pockets of toxic and putrid feces and mucus that poisons the
blood stream and every cell and organ in the body.
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waste
removal and cleansing ... from the cellular level to the colon. But the
typical American diet featuring an abundance of meat, dairy, fried and
over-cooked foods, sugar, starches, salt and artificial chemicals is
hard to digest, very little of it can be assimilated as nutrition into
our cells, it is high in toxic waste, fat and cholesterol, and slow to
move though the colon because it is low in fiber and digestive enzymes.
We
know the body of a dead animal in hot weather creates quite a stench
after a couple days. This stench gives us a good idea of what meat does
inside the 98.6-degree temperature of the body. The comparison of a
human colon with the colon of a true carnivore, such as a dog, provides
strong evidence that humans were not designed to eat meat. The colon of
a dog is smooth and straight, like a stove pipe, and takes a short,
direct route. In contrast, the human colon turns back and forth along a
convoluted pathway with many puckers, pouches, twists and turns. The
dog's colon is designed to allow a short transit time for even
hard-to-digest meat, cholesterol and fat, without much need for fiber to
move things along.
In
Diet for a New America, John
Robbins points out, "Dogs, cats and the other natural carnivores do
not get colon cancer from high-fat, low-fiber, flesh-based diets. But we
do ...The toxins from putrefying flesh are not the problem for them that
they are for us because everything passes through them so much more
quickly." He notes that colon cancer is a killer that affects more
than 20 percent of American families, and his book provides an
incredible number of statistics and medical studies proving that the
more meat, the more fat, the more cholesterol and the less fiber and
digestive enzymes we get, the more likely we are to die of colon cancer.
Fiber
acts as an intestinal broom to sweep things along in the colon while fat
clogs up the intestines. It is vital to-remember that all animal
products - meat, dairy and
eggs - have zero fiber, while most are high in fat. In addition to
constipation and increased risk of colon cancer, a meat based, high-fat,
low-fiber diet can cause a host of other colon-related problems,
including diverticulosis, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome, spastic
colon and appendicitis. These are all problems that can be caused by
slow-moving, hard, dry feces, and can be cured by something as simple as
a predominately raw foods, vegetarian diet, which is high in fiber, low
in fat, and produces soft, moist feces that are easily eliminated.
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