| Seventy percent or more of the population | | | | responded well to the unscientific therapies |
| struggles with constipation. Some believe the | | | | vehemently rejected by my colleagues in drug |
| number is even higher, 80- 90%. The market for | | | | medicine." |
| laxatives is now approaching 1 billion each year. It | | | | Without good regular bowel movements and colon |
| appears that constipation is an issue that most of | | | | function, you will create various illnesses, colon |
| us have to deal with at one time or the other. | | | | discomforts, and diseases - including constipation. |
| Using natural means to clear constipation is what | | | | By concentrating on eliminating constipation and |
| this e-book is all about. | | | | preserving colon health, you can take a major |
| I believe that to have good health we need to | | | | step in preventing many body conditions and |
| use mostly foods and supplements that are free | | | | illnesses that can shorten your life or make your |
| of additives and food enhancers that are harmful | | | | senior years a miserable time. |
| to the body. We need to eat the right foods and | | | | As with so many past health practitioners, I |
| watch how we prepare them so we can digest | | | | believe your colon is so important that any |
| and absorb them without creating or leaving | | | | improvement you can make in your colon's health |
| residues that get turned into toxic matter in our | | | | will help you avert many unnecessary illnesses and |
| colon. | | | | suffering. If you make only one effort in |
| The first question that a nutritionist or any other | | | | improving your health, it should be towards |
| health practitioner should ask you on your first | | | | creating a clean and healthy colon. |
| visit is, "how many bowel movements do you | | | | Heart attacks, cancers, senility, pathogenic |
| have each day or each week?" | | | | organisms and so on cause most deaths that |
| If you visit a doctor, your colon is the last area | | | | occur in the US and throughout the world. There |
| they discuss with you. And perhaps, this is an | | | | are few deaths related to natural causes or old |
| area they may never discuss with you at all. | | | | age. |
| In his article, The Bowel is an Ecosystem, in | | | | Your colon provides nutrients and water to all |
| Healthy & Natural Journal, April 1997, Majid Ali, M.D. | | | | parts of the body. So, when a specific organ has |
| recounts, | | | | degenerated it is important to see what part |
| "When I returned to the clinical practice of | | | | colon toxins have played in this degeneration. |
| environmental and nutritional medicine after years | | | | If your colon is toxic, the blood will also be toxic. |
| of pathology work, I began carefully testing the | | | | If your colon is toxic, these toxins will gradually |
| assertions of nutritionists, naturopaths and clinical | | | | reach all parts of your body through the blood |
| ecologist who claimed that various types of colitis | | | | and lymph liquid. The result is the body and |
| [a deterioration of your colon wall] could be | | | | various organs affected will become less efficient. |
| reversed with optimal nutritional and ecologic | | | | Overtime this decreased efficiency will cause the |
| approaches. To my great surprise, I found that | | | | body will become diseased and you will lose your |
| such professionals, who are usually spurned by | | | | good health. |
| drug doctors, were right after all. My patients | | | | |