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          According to some estimates about 70 million people in America suffer from some kind of bowel problems:  colitis ileitis, diverticulitis, constipation, and 100,000 each year have a colostomy.  There are probably millions more who try to treat themselves with common laxatives.  Many people who are not even aware they have a bowel problem are often in the worst condition of all.

          A healthy individual will have two bowel movements per day. They should be large, well formed, buoyant and not accompanied by a foul odor.  If there is even a slight straining, then you are constipated.

          When you are not eliminating property, deposits of waste matter build up along the wall of your colon or in the pockets of the colon.  This is why even a mild case of constipation is a very serious problem.  Normally, your body pushes waste out of your colon in 18 to 24 hours.  When you are not eliminating property, these wastes may not leave for days.  If some of the material deposits along the colon wall, it may not leave for months or even years.  Incredible as it may sound, these deposits of hardened fecal matter can get to be 2 or 3 inches thick and as hard as tire rubber.

          These deposits are harmful for several reasons.  They make it difficult for the body to absorb minerals and nutrients through the intestinal walls.  Bowel problems cause nutritional deficiency no matter how good your diet is or how many vitamins you take.  Another harmful effect of these deposits is that the nerve endings in the colon get irritated.  This can lead to spastic or inflamed colon.

         When the colon is clean and healthy we experience a feeling of well-being.  When the colon is congested with stagnant wastes, poisons back up into the system and pollute the inner environment.  This is called autointoxication.  Literally, "self-poisoning".  Autointoxication can be a causative factor in numerous serious diseases.  This pollution of blood interrupts waste removal at the cellular level.

          Reduction of refined foods, white flours and mucous-producing foods and an increased intake of natural fiber foods can assist elimination greatly.  Plenty of water daily will also aid in expelling wastes.  But if the colon is clogged, no matter how well you eat, you will not benefit nutritionally.  Even laxatives will only propel the wastes through the center of the clogged colon. Fiber food will not get rid of the deposits.

          Many colons today are pinched, prolapsed and over-irritated.  Over the counter laxatives are questionable as they over stimulate the tissues of your bowel, weakening the colon even further.  And they still don't remove the hardened deposits.  The same is essentially true for ordinary enemas.  They merely wash out the fresh wastes.

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