Did you know?
# A toxic colon causes more than 65 different health problems. ~The Royal Society of Medicine, Great Britain
# 22% of the UK population suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
# 25 million Americans per year see a doctor for constipation. ~John Hopkins Magazine
# "Most people are walking around with at least seven pounds of waste in their large intestine." ~ Dr. Jack Larmer
# Colo-rectal cancer or cancer of the colon or rectum is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. ~The American Cancer Society
# There are more than 50 million physician visits and $87 billion in medical costs yearly in the US due to digestive complaints. ~ National Institutes of Health
# "Diet is second only to tobacco as a leading cause of cancer and, along with alcohol, is responsible for nearly one third of cases of the disease in developed countries” ~ Dr Tim Key, University Of Oxford, UK
If you were to poll your family members, your friends, the people you work with, and ask them about their health or how they feel - you would find that almost everybody has some kind of ailment or condition. Some people may fight daily with small nagging problems, while other people battle serious degenerative health challenges. Yet we go on day by day thinking that poor health is a normal part of life.
It seems to go against common sense - despite the fact that we are living in an age of technology, sickness and disease still runs rampant. Despite all of the research into vitamins, nutrition and diseases the health of the average person is deteriorating. We may be living longer, but by most estimates we are not living healthier. How many people do you know that seem to be always getting sick? How many people do you know that consistently battle against chronic fatigue and a lack of energy and vitality? How many people do you know that has serious health problems?
What has caused this problem? Many experts have various opinions, but two of the most common factors comprise of problems within the digestive system. The average person does not think it is unusual or problematic to have a bowel movement only once a day, once every second day, or once every few days. And yet these conditions are slowly robbing us of our health and vitality.
Problems with the digestive system are among the greatest and most dangerous, and yet relatively ignored within the modern world. Chief amongst the problems is those directly related to the large intestines. Most people are not aware how dangerous auto intoxication caused from irregular bowel movements and a sluggish colon is to their health. Many nutritional experts define regularity as being “2-3 bowel movements per day". The Royal Society of Medicine of Great Britain has published the shocking revelation, "More than a toxic colon causes 65 different health challenges".
A very important factor to a properly functioning colon is for it to be able to first absorb nutrients, and second to remove the waste materials from our body before it can poison us. If this matter is not properly removed, auto intoxication (the re-absorption of toxic waste) can begin. It does not take long for putrefied waste to absorb through the colon wall into the bloodstream and to begin to cause damage to the other organs as well. Most people think that they do not have a problem with their digestive system, but in actuality a healthy person should be having a bowel movement 2 - 3 times per day. For each meal we eat; we should have one meal out. Due to improper diet and the consumption of junk food, very few people have a normal functioning colon. This is so true that Dr. Harvey Kellog M.D. of Battle Creek, Michigan said that of the 22,000 operations personally performed by him he did’t encounter a single normal colon and of the 100,000 performed under his jurisdiction only six percent were normal. Waste matter can cling to the walls of an unhealthy slow moving colon and become cemented there, further restricting the flow.
Dr. Norman Walker, D. SC., PhD., also said, "Not to cleanse the colon is like having the entire garbage collecting staff in your city go on strike for days on end. The accumulation of garbage in the street creates putrid, odoriferous, unhealthy gases which are dispersed into the atmosphere."
Imagine what would be the result of a pump failure in a city's sewer system. What would happen if the pipes got all plugged up with some unmovable material so that the system failed to move waste? It wouldn't take very long before a crisis developed and a huge sanitation problem would threaten health and society.
Dr. Norman W. Walker, D.SC. PhD. offers the following insight from his book Colon Health, The Key to a Vibrant Life: "Few of us realize that failure to effectively eliminate waste products from the body causes so much fermentation and putrefaction (rotting of waste matter) in the colon that the neglected accumulation of waste can, and frequently does, result in a lingering demise! Infirmity and sickness is the result of allowing the intestines to remain loaded with waste matter."
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