About Colon Cleansing

While our body both from outside and inside has not undergone much change during the past many centuries, our eating habits have gone through tremendous change during the past century. We usually do not eat, we assault our internal organs by consuming the loads of junk food which now forms the basis of urban lifestyle. If you believe the every action has an equal and opposite reaction, then this marathon consumption of unhealthy food has led us to the dreaded disease - colon cancer, which is regarded as the 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. There are about 106,000 new cases in the USA each year and 35,000 cases in the UK. More than 80% of these are in people over 60. Since bowel clearance forms the basis of keeping good health, if you do not have at lest one bowel movement in a day, you are already getting ready to walk towards a health disaster.

Thus to remove all the toxins and intestinal congestion that we have created ourselves, and begin leading a healthy life, there is one activity which is the forerunner : colon cleansing.

'Colon cleansing', 'natural colon cleansing, 'herbal colon cleansing', 'colon therapy' are different terms to refer to a procedure or a therapy whose main aim is to cleanse the colon. A thorough 'colon cleansing' could take anywhere between 3 to 4 weeks stretching up to a month, depending on the level of stored toxins, etc. A good number of supplements may have to be used for a proper colon cleansing, including a few days of fasting.

If you ask yourself, why one needs to go through the process of colon cleansing, the answer probably lies in another question - why people suffer from constipation. When we have less bowel movement, than what is considered healthy, or the transit time for accumulated toxic waste in our body is long, our body is exposed to food being putrefied and ferment inside the bowel. This accumulation of toxic waste inside our bowel becomes the breeding ground for many diseases, one of them being constipation. It is said that even with one defecation per day, we still have at least three meals worth of putrid matter in our colon at any given point in time.

Colon cleansing can begin in your own kitchen. Start by having a diet rich in raw fruits and vegetables. Have very little cooked or processed foods. This will help in achieving freedom from mucoid plaque. Develop the habit of regular defecation and let not any toxin material accumulate inside your bowel or colon.