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Root Of Good Health
By peace | May 17, 2007
A good intestinal health is your gateway to a good overall health, feeling naturally ‘relax’, truly ‘cleansed’, and naturally beautiful getting rid of pimples, excessive ‘winds’ and flatulence from your body. For ladies, it decreases your waistline too!
This is a funny world. How things work always depend on similar concepts and logic. Observe things around you. How animals behave and that of plants survival and so on. Sometimes we can learn tremendous lessons from them. One such example is that of water hose which we use for gardening, or washing the car, or those water hose of washing machine even! I have written a post about Intestinal Health at various blogs of mine, such as Health Motivator, What’s Wrong with Me and Happiness Is Bliss, and of course Health Is Wealth too. This is another overview of Intestinal Health I just wrote at Helium, the details are below:
Overview: Intestinal health
Food is vital for human survival. Do you live to eat or eat to live? Regardless of which, you need food. Eating and drinking is human needs as well as human satisfaction and enjoyment. However, for true satisfaction and enjoyment of the food we eat and drink, we need good intestinal health. Intestinal health is important as mentioned earlier, consumption of food is vital for human nutritional needs, which in turn affects a person’s health. Without food, humans as well as any animal cannot have energy to move and do anything. Thus our intestinal health is very important.
A baby has short intestine. As babies grow to become teenagers and adults, their bodies are constantly growing and so do their intestines. The length of intestines grow longer and more convoluted. This is because our intestine plays important role in absorption of nutrients from the food that we eat. Our body’s abdominal ’space’ is limited, and for our intestine to increase its absorption rate (thus providing efficiency), it needs to increase its surface area. As such, when a baby is born, they tend to have plenty of bowel activities. They drink lots of milk, every two to three hourly (small stomach), and they defecate almost as often as they drink milk. You will notice that their bowels are not as smelly as adult does too.
Normally children do not have problems with their intestinal health. As mentioned, their intestinal length is shorter than adults and not as convoluted as adults. However that does not mean that children will have good intestinal health. As adults grow, their intestines get more convoluted and the ability to empty bowels also faces more difficulty. To understand how the intestine works, you need to think of intestines as those ‘water hose’ that we use at home or in the garden. The longer it is, the more you coil it up, the more difficult it is for water to pass through as there is chances of getting kink. Our intestine contains ‘food’ and not water. Imagine a hose that contains food, the movement is even harder. Thus, to have good intestinal health, the first and most important thing is to drink plenty of water. Having water as a solvent, greatly help in the movement of bowels in the intestine. This would prevent constipation.
What happen if there is not enough water consumption? Constipation is what you get. The effect of constipation is bad breath, bloating, farting of ‘bad gas’ and as time pass, you do not have appetite even and you have a feeling of ‘being full’. This is the body natural response to tell you to empty your bowel. Just like the hose, if you want to fill it up with water, the other end must empty first! Prolonged retention of feces in the intestine is bad for health. These are bad matters that the body do not need. They emit bad gases which are harmful for the body. This is analogous to leaving food in the air. These food when exposed to air turns bad and smells as days pass by. This in turn affects the overall health of the person — more pimples, more frustration, and so on.
To avoid constipation, drink plenty of water and have a habit of emptying the bowels as frequently as possible. The best is everyday but there are people who empty their bowels once every two days and so on. The main thing is not to let the bad matters stay in the body for too long. Prolonged bad matters in the intestines causes these matters to ‘clog’ up the intestines, just like what we see in prolonged used water hose, there are black masses of algae and other dirt collect at the sides of the water hose. These will always be there and hard to be dislodged off. In our human intestines, this condition is termed coprostasis (I have written colon health and beauty at http://anthingblissful.blogspot.com/2007/03/colon-health-and-beauty.html). Through time, these have detrimental effects on our intestines, which we cannot see and feel. Although everyday you empty your bowels, there might be traces of such matters in your intestines. Thus it is important to clean our intestines well.
There are many advertisements on colon cleansing. I do believe that good intestinal health is important and is the root to many other problems of our body. Besides products on colon cleansing, there are other products that is useful for intestinal health, such as Vitagens, Yakult which has billions of live probiotic cultures. In addition, consume more fibres which helps to prevent constipation too. Next eat healthy food, balanced diet, ‘clean’, ‘fresh’ food. Eating contaminated food can cause stomach upset and this will bring discomfort to your stomach and intestine too. Lastly, exercise will help bowels movement too.
Thus, your intestinal health is determined by what you eat, and how you take care of yourself — your habits of emptying your bowels, and how often you exercise. There are commercial products in the market that helps colon cleansing and it is all about your choice and decision to look after your health. You are what you eat. Your intestinal health lies in your mouth, your care and habits of life.
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If you do not take care of your intestinal health, prolonged coprostasis is a determinant factor in causing colon cancer. This would definitely affect our spiritual and mental health. A good overall health is only our sure guarantee to good spiritual and mental health.
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