ARE YOU CONSTIPATED?

Besides causing asthma and allergies, when you are constipated, your whole breathing and immune system are seriously affected! Learning to BREATHE better, drinking more water, eliminating dairy, breads and cereals and sugar and taking digestive enzymes with EVERY meal are HUGE factors in eliminating constipation!

Check our articles files at www.breathing.com/jan.htm (click on home and look for articles section) to learn a great deal more about breathing better via ending constipation!

Jan

Online Health & Nutrition Newsletter Spirit of Health - Vol. 3 Issue 3

22 March 2007

ARE YOU CONSTIPATED?

Published by Health Freedom Resources, Inc.

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WHAT IS CONSTIPATION?

Constipation is a slowed rate of digestion and elimination that does not keep up with how much food one eats.

If you eat three meals a day, spread out throughout over about 12 hours, you should have right around three bowel movements (BMs) each day.

If you eat three squares a day plus snacks and you only have one BM a day on average, then you are definitely constipated.

If you have a BM once every two or three days, you are very constipated.

Those folks able to go only once a week, or less often, are seriously constipated and should not delay in correcting this condition.

Why is constipation a problem?

CONSTIPATION IS AN UNNATURAL CONDITION

. . . but it's increasing at an alarming rate!

Due to poor eating habits, it has become increasingly clear that almost every person in this country over six years old is developing serious problems in the intestinal tract. In later years this usually results in the development of various acute, chronic and degenerative diseases. Such diseases include cancer, heart trouble and diabetes; as well as lack of energy, premature aging, poor eyesight, memory loss, a poor complexion, bad breath, sexual dysfunction and various forms of chronic pain. It is estimated that over 98% of disease can be contributed directly or indirectly to a compromised digestive tract. As Dr. Bernard Jensen says, "It is the bowel that invariably has to be cared for first before any effective healing can take place."

LOW ENERGY LEVEL?

People suffer from malnutrition and auto-intoxication (self-poisoning), which result in disease, parasites and filth, all because of a gradual buildup of many pockets of uneliminated waste matter. The healthy colon weighs about four pounds, an unhealthy one can weigh more than twice as much. Few people realize that the same unhealthy substances found in the colon can also abound in the stomach, duodenum and small intestine.

A POLLUTED INTESTINAL TRACT

. . . means dirty blood, poor digestion and low energy.

When the intestines have too much waste matter, parasites, fungus and harmful bacteria, there results a serious interference with the digestive process. Even if a person's intestinal tract were polluted with just a mild amount of this undesirable filth, he or she could have sluggish peristaltic action, which is constipational. How does the body adjust to cooked food, processed food and refined food - dead foods?

Victoria Boutenko

in her book, "12 Steps to Raw Food", explains it this way: "The body creates mucus and uses this mucus as a filter. All the surfaces of the digestive tract that are designed to absorb the nutrients from food become covered with mucus film that protects blood from toxins. The mucus film begins at the tongue and continues all the way through the intestines. Many people can see this mucus on their tongue. People who have a thick mucus coating on their intestines usually have white tongues as if they just ate sour cream. The body creates a little mucus, to begin with, to filter out the toxins from the dead food. The more dead food we consume, the more mucus the body produces as a protection. The more harmful the food substances are to the body, the more this mucous film builds up. As the years go by it becomes thicker and harder. Portions of this thick mucus get pushed into pockets called diverticuli as we cram through more and more dead food into the digestive tract in an effo rt to squeeze some nutritional value out of it.

You may ask: What is the mucus made of? The human body, brilliant as always, creates the mucus from the dead food itself! This mucus covers our entire digestive tract, to prevent us from absorbing the toxins in dead food that would make the body too sick. Because of the mucoid plaque, our nutrient assimilation becomes low. The mucoid plaque protects us from absorbing toxins, but at the same time we cannot absorb nutrients. The more mucus we have, the fewer nutrients we can receive. After a number of years of eating too much dead food, we develop severe nutritional deficiencies, become less energetic and finally sick with diseases."

When we go on raw-live food and stay with it, this mucoid plaque can be dissolved. With the aid of herbal preparations and exercise, the body will eliminate it faster. The longer we eat raw-live food, the more plaque gets dissolved.

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WHERE HAS MY PEP GONE?

Any build-up of old pockets of waste matter (diverticulitis) produces fermentation, putrefaction and stagnant packets of poisons and harmful bacteria (a condition of auto-intoxication or self-poisoning). These toxins constantly seep into the bloodstream and lymph. They eventually settle into the weakest areas of the body, then various symptoms develop and are given names according to those areas and the degree of cell degeneration. Unfortunately the symptoms found elsewhere in the body resulting from the toxic overload in the bowel, are generally treated rather than the cause in the bowel. Even if one succeeds in strengthening the weak area or suppressing the symptom, the toxic flow from the bowel will simply find another weak area to break through. As Dr. Jensen puts it, "Every tissue is fed by the blood, which is supplied by the bowel. When the bowel is dirty, the blood is dirty and so on to the organs and tissues."

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PARASITE'S HEAVEN

...a dirty, unhealthy intestinal tract.

This is the ideal environment for worms and parasites. There are over 300 varieties that can live in the human body. World-wide, worms outrank cancer as our deadliest enemy. It has been estimated that 150 million people in

America

have intestinal parasite infestation. Medical textbooks have revealed that over 55 million American children have worms. Parasite infestation is growing rapidly, due to a lack of raw fruits and vegetables in the diet and an increased consumption of cooked and acid-forming foods, i.e., processed foods of all kinds, refined sugars, meat, dairy, poultry and coffee. Once in the intestinal tract, parasites have easy access to other parts of the body where they bring on various symptoms and diseases.

HOW CAN I GET BACK MY "GET UP AND GO?"

It is important to realize the importance of removing unhealthy bacteria, mold and fungus from the intestinal tract and re-establishing the beneficial bacteria. This flora is essential to a strong immune system, assimilation of vitamins, proteins, fats, carbohydrates and the manufacturing of Vitamin B-12, K and amino acids. It helps reduce cholesterol in the blood, control the pH in the intestines and detoxify the poisonous materials in our diets, while producing cancer-suppressing compounds that strengthen the immune system, increase calcium assimilation and help retard candida, excess gas and bad breath. When unhealthy bacteria overrun the healthy bacteria, outside pathogens penetrate the immune barriers and feed the blood and lymph with further toxic substance. Proper implantation of healthy bacteria begins with cleansing and removing the harmful bacteria/fungus from the digestive system. A Complete Colon Cleanse/Nutritional Program can prepare the intestinal environment  for beneficial bacteria. Water, juice-fasts or colonics by themselves are unable to remove all these substances. There are various preparations that can remove easily accessible build-ups from the colon alone, but for best results it is necessary to cleanse and restore the strong function of the stomach and entire digestive tract. This can only be accomplished by restoring the beneficial flora balance, ridding the system of accumulated waste pockets and introducing highly nutritious raw-live food sources to replace the over abundance of processed/ refined foods, meat, dairy, poultry and excessively cooked foods. This is a crucial change for those who are determined to have better health and sustain it for the rest of their life.

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LAXATIVES ARE NOT A SOLUTION!

THEY ARE VERY HABIT FORMING AND DO NOT ADDRESS THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM.

USED FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME, LAXATIVES MAKE IT MORE AND MORE DIFFICULT TO RETURN THE BODY’S DIGESTIVE SYSTEM TO A

NATURAL

STATE

OF FUNCTIONING.

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