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The incidence of colon cancer is second only to that of lung cancer. More and more people are diagnosed with this form of cancer every year. Are the harmful remnants of fecal matter in the intestine to blame for the increase in colon cancer cases?

Health experts say that colon cleansing has no effect on colon health. They claim that it will certainly not prevent disease, and it may in fact be harmful. Many people, however, are turning to this method as a means for maintaining good health.

The effects of colon cancer and other colon-related illnesses can be painful and long-lasting. Besides affecting the quality of life of the patient, it can become so severe that a colostomy is required. A colostomy is the surgical removal of portions of the intestine.

When a significant amount of the small intestine is removed, it results in a colostomy bag, where fecal matter is no longer excreted through traditional methods, and is, instead, detoured into a bag that must be emptied on a regular basis.

Preventing this extreme procedure is the key. Cancer or other disorders of the colon are not always preventable, but there is a percentage of situations where problems are avoidable by maintaining good colon health through colonic irrigation and a healthy diet. You may even want to try the best colon cleanse out there.

Those trying to maintain colon health through diet typically avoid artificial foods and preservatives, such as high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils. These foods can attack your colon because they are not easily digested and excreted; this may make the colon more susceptible to illness.

The toxicity of regular food is capable on its own of causing disease and cancer, but in tandem with synthetic chemicals, the liklihood for severe damage skyrockets.

Eating foods that are laden with chemicals and synthetic ingredients constantly challenges your colon and digestive system as a whole. This can result in the body being unable to absorb and process nutrients, which in turn can lead to chronic constipation.

If this happens, bowel movements are typically smaller. Many people do not even notice that they have a problem because they are still having bowel movements. What they don’t realize is that the lining of their intestines are being coated with fecal matter that is not passing.

This can effect general health, because suffers become malnourished without knowing a problem even exists. Implementing a healthy diet will help minimize this problem. Natural foods pass naturally.

When build up has already occurred, a dietary change may work as a preventative measure, but it will not cure the problem. Many experts believe that 5 to 20 lbs of fecal matter can exist within the colon at any given time.

Such high amounts can leave you feeling generally unwell. Colonic irrigation through means of a laxative or hydrotherapy cleanses the bowels entirely, giving your colon a fresh start at absorbing the nutrients it has been missing.

Not only will this improve your overall health, but many people report weight loss from multiple cleansings.

Symptoms that may suggest you would benefit from a colon cleansing are usually subtle, as they can occur for many reasons. Some examples include diarrhea, insomnia, difficulty with weight loss, constipation, abdominal gas, prostate problems, fatigue, headaches and backaches.

If you experience any of these symptoms, your colon may be trying to tell you something. Listen and improve your health. For taking care of your financial health, a free credit score is an excellent starting point. However, to maintain great health in your body long term, consider burn the fat feed the muscle.

Most people new to the idea of colon cleansing for good health, are turned off by the idea of doing an enema or colon irrigation. So they look for alternative methods to cleaning their colon, and one of the most natural colon cleansing methods they discover is food.

Food is one of the best techniques to use for cleansing your colon. Now, there are several approaches to using food for colon cleansing, so we’ll look at a couple of those here.

First: The lack of food can help cleanse your colon. Technically this is called a fast, or a body detox technique. Using this colon cleansing method, you simply go on a juice only diet for about one week. Juice fasts can last for two to three weeks if you’d like though, and many people use them for both detoxing their body and losing unwanted body weight.

You can do a juice fast with either vegetable or fruit juices. Diabetics might need to add water to fruit juices though, because sometimes that’s too much sugar.

Not everyone can handle going without solid food for a week or more though, so that brings us to our primary colon cleansing method:

Food. Yes, real, solid food that will fill your stomach.

The best types of foods to eat which will help your colon cleanse itself gently and naturally, are high in fiber.

Whole grain and bran cereals for instance, are an excellent way to get extra fiber into your diet and help cleanse your colon. You may want to try adding flaxseed to your breakfast for even better results.

Anything green and leafy is another excellent source for helping to cleanse the colon. Try eating plenty of vegetables such as spinach, broccoli, and various salad greens.

One of the best foods for helping you cleanse your colon though, is fruit. Blackberries have a full 8 grams of fiber in each cup for example, and that natural fiber does an excellent job of cleaning your colon. Prunes and prune juice are also excellent foods to use for cleansing your colon, and just about any other type of fruit or fruit juice which usually makes you have a good bowel movement will work as well.

The whole point of cleansing your colon naturally using food, is to increase your body’s waste elimination process for several days at the minimum. You want to force your body to start flushing out the solid waste materials, so that it’s also carrying the toxins and bacteria out of your body more quickly too.

Colon cleansing has become increasingly popular in recent years, but it’s been around for ages. Early mentions of colon cleansing date back to biblical times, and today’s health food stores have shelves lined with different colon cleansers.

But why has the popularity of colon cleansing increased so much in recent years? Certainly, part of it is due to the popularity of the Master Cleanse and other programs designed to cleanse the body. A body cleansing program removes a great deal of stored toxic waste from the body, and as these programs are marketed, people regularly talk about how much waste is trapped in the average person’s colon and in body. There are even some pretty incredible pictures of the filth that has been removed by colon cleansing. And more people are becoming aware of the need for colon cleansing, because more and more people are talking about it.

Diets and lifestyles have also changed a great deal in the last fifty years and even more so in the last hundred years. In general, people are eating more processed foods, and less natural foods. The combination tends to allow more waste to build in the colon, where it sits uneliminated, because the high fiber content of natural foods that is meant to push the waste out of the body is often missing. Unfortunately, though, when this waste sits in the colon, it putrefies, and the end result is often disease for the person that carries it.

In fact, some natural health care professionals believe that all disease begins in the colon and that all disease can be attributed to toxins stored in the body. However, through the use of colon cleansing methods like colonics, enemas, and colon cleansing products, a great deal of this filth can be removed from the body forever. And when the body and colon are really cleansed though deep body cleansing, it’s quite common for health problems disappear.

A few years ago an article in the San Diego Union Tribune announced the finding of rocket fuel in milk. Yes, you did read that correctly, I did say rocket fuel. I was stunned by this and shared it with a friend. My friend didn’t think this was a big deal, and honestly, I think I found that more astounding. Because, of course, people put milk in their bodies and therefore, they are putting rocket fuel in their bodies, sometimes several times each day. You understand that I’m saying..

Later, I learned that this same person believed that the chlorine that municipalities put in the water supply was actually helpful in making us clean while bathing. At first I was sure that this was a joke, but I was assured it was not. Sometimes you just scratch your head a little bit.

Unfortunately, though, I think it’s commonplace for people today to dramatically underestimate the damage caused to our bodies by putting such chemicals inside our bodies. And I believe it’s also common for people to underestimate and just not to be aware of all of the hidden and dangerous chemicals in what we consume, like in milk and far too many more commonly consumed items.

Unfortunately, our bodies aren’t designed to be able to handle all of these chemicals, so we don’t just effectively eliminate them - and we end up storing a lot of them. And the assertion that all of these man-made chemicals are safe in the body is laughable. How would anyone know for an absolute fact that any of these chemicals are safe in the body?  

Most of the chemicals that are common in the body haven’t even been around for long, so it would have been impossible for any real studies to have looked at the effects of time, accumulation, and the combination of the chemicals with other chemicals from other sources that have also become trapped in the body. Or, for that matter, if all of these chemicals trapped in the body have any effects on the next generation. Or generations after that. It simply hasn’t been done, or has it?

At the same time that so many chemicals used in and on our bodies has increased, health problems in individuals have also increased astronomically. They’re increasing so fast you can almost watch it happen.  Not long ago, it was estimated that 30 percent of the population would have a problem with cancer. Now, it’s estimated that half of the population will have a problem with cancer.  

In fact, you could look at our society as a whole, with the increase in both the number of common chemicals used in and on our bodies, and the dramatic rise in health problems and say conclusively: We’ve conducted one giant experiment, with the participation of an entire culture. Regrettably, we’ve found that without a doubt, the use and accumulation of unnatural chemicals in the body absolutely causes problems. Often times though, you don’t see the problems immediately which is why we unfortunately didn’t make the direct connection right away.

The only question left is: Do we want to keep this experiment with our health and bodies up? Or do we want to spend some time doing a deep body cleanse with a colon cleanse in order to remove these stored chemicals and curtail their use - in general? Do we want to put an stop this experiment or do we want to just let people (and generations) keep getting sicker and sicker? It’s our choice: What will we decide?