Your
digestive tract that processes what you eat is 26 feet long. It is a complicated part of the body that gives you the fuel to
go about your day with effectiveness and energy.
Your liveliness and your feeling of
well-being are dependent on what you eat and how quickly it moves through your
body.
That journey time is made efficient by the quantity
of fiber you eat. In an ideal world
foods should go into your mouth and leave your bowels within 18 to 24 hours.
Foods that stay in your body longer tend to
lose water and get more solid resulting
in constipation.
Help is needed to move unwanted food
quickly through your digestive tract.
Constipation can create all kinds of
problems. Fiber is like a brush that helps take away material that is caught on
the walls of the intestines and move it forward to the other end.
Because fiber remains close to its original
state when we eat, it stays undigested and contributes to colon health. Grains and
Vegetables hold plenty of fiber. Foods today have very little fiber because of
processing.
Vegetables may be eaten once in a while,
but not sufficient to give enough fiber to continue to keep constipation away.
With the invention of the roller mill in
1870 and the refinement of grain the roughage that used to be eaten to keep our
colon healthy was lost. This may explained illnesses and toxins remaining in
our system for too long.
This most likely explains the sky rocketing colon cancer rates today. There are too many toxic substances hanging around the intestines for far too long.
There are two types of fiber, soluble and
insoluble. They both let the digesting material
more water so that the feces stay soft and move more at ease all the way
through the digestive tract.
Insoluble fiber is similar to a scouring
brush, pushing everything out. Soluble fiber, soak up toxins and extra
cholesterol and remove.
Obviously, soft bowel movements cause less tension
on the body.
Constipation can cause problems such as,
indigestion, bloating, dehydration, heart burn, hemorrhoids, body odor,
depression, fatigue, gas, and even insomnia varicose veins and bad breath
