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It’s Your Life
movements should be painless, without strain,
and fairly quick. You’ve heard the jokes about
keeping reading materials in the bathroom…
crossword puzzles, books, magazines, etc, are
fun, but if you’re sitting on the toilet long enough
to complete the Sunday Times puzzle, you’re
constipated!
Conquering constipation is the route to a
cleaner colon. A cleaner colon is the route to a
healthier body. Although there are numerous
over-the-counter products available for
constipation, it’s important to stop thinking
of constipation as a disease that requires a
treatment; start thinking of it as something
we create by denying our bodies the proper
nourishment (fresh vegetables, fresh fruit,
whole grains, beans, nuts and seeds) and by
supplying them, instead, with an overabundance
of processed, refined, junky foods. We need
the fiber of whole foods to create the movement
necessary to clear the clogs in our colons…
and that sort of fiber is not found in fatty, greasy,
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