It is about the ways to get a helathy life avoiding constipation!
The article is quite long to read. Read and learn!
Terri
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Here are the list of causes of constipation:
1. Unchewed food.
2. Lack of pure water and fibre.
3. Medication.
4. Insufficient exercise.
5. Sugary beverages.
6. Eating before bed.
7. Overeating
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What is the No1 cause of constipation便秘 in North America?
Can you guess?
It's overeating. Putting too much food in the body at one time. Especially too much high-calorie food高熱量食物. The biggest culprits罪魁禍首 are sugar糖 and starch澱粉, but grease油脂 runs not far behind.
Your intestines just weren't meant to handle a ton of sugar and starch澱粉 and cheap oil. Some doctors will even argue your intestines aren't meant to handle ANY starch at all, and only a
moderate amount of sugar found naturally in whole foods and vegetables.
I find the anti-starch movement a little extremist極端. But if you were to ask me what is better, no starch or too much starch, I'd say no starch (all other things being equal).
Look at how much sugar and flour and rice and pastries 糕點and pastas麵條 most people consume.
I see people order pasta麵糰/食 at a restaurant. That's all. Big plate of starch with some meat or cheese mixed in.
Then, while they wait for their bowl of starch the waiter brings a basket of... BREAD. More starch. Starch to get you ready for the starch that they are boiling. After that's over, for dessert, usually more starch澱粉 is ordered (in the form of a cake, ice cream cone, cookie, pie crust) all coated with sugar (which is basically a simpler form of starch).
And, what's more, most sugar these days does not even come from sugar cane甘蔗 - instead it comes from sweet corn (in the form of corn syrup玉米糖漿).
These types of foods are the easiest for your gastro-intestinal tract's bacteria to consume胃腸道的細菌消費. It causes them to have a bit of a party inside, gorging themselves大吃 and reproducing like an epidemic傳染病.
But, even more plainly, putting too much food into the body is going to clog堵塞it up. You don't need to be a doctor to understand this. You know what happens if you put too much toilet paper in
the toilet or try to pour something in it that shouldn't go down. It gets clogged up.
Look at your hands. Hold them together, palms up as if you were cupping water. That's about how much food you should put into your stomach at one time. And most of what you fill up on should
be fruits and vegetables (not at the same time, of course). And what makes up fruits and vegetables? Water. Yes, water, fibre and vitamins and minerals. What makes up a donut甜甜圈? Starch, sugar and fat.
Your intestines腸子 are designed to assimilate only so much starch, sugar and fat. Your GI胃腸道 tract is really one of the weakest set of organs in the human body. Sadly, it's often the most abused最被濫用.
You should NOT be eating until full, unless you're extremely underweight. You need to leave some room for the gastric juices胃液 in your stomach to mix. You need to give your intestines some
"pumping" space“泵”的空間.
Because our agriculture system is so advanced in North America, food is too easily available. We don't think anything of ordering super-large quantities超大量. In other counties, having a
banana for breakfast is considered a treat. Here we need a banana, plus milk, cereal, coffee and a bagel.
Now I'm not saying you should only have a banana for breakfast. What I am saying is that most of us can easily afford to eat twice as much food as we need.
In fact, the United States, for example, spends less of its disposable income on food than any other nation. It also produces nearly twice as many crops (most of which end up as cattle feed牛飼料 or corn syrup) than the population needs to eat.
No wonder obesity肥胖 has been classified as an epidemic疫疾 by the Surgeon General.
So you need to do whatever you can to curb your appetite抑制食慾.
Here are a few tips to avoid obesity:
- Grocery List: Go to the grocery store with a list of what you want to buy. Don't idly move down the aisles seeing what catches your eye. Most of what's in the supermarket is junk food垃圾食品. Just because they call it a frozen "dinner" doesn't mean its any good for you. Go with a list, get what you need and get out of there. Avoid the junk food aisles過道. How do you expect to go down an aisle with over 1000 bags of cookies, Twinkies, donuts, chips, etc. and not get any?
The only areas of the store you really need to visit are the organic produce section, the butcher's corner, dairy, grains (not boxed cereals) and the bulk food section for nuts, seeds, etc. - Don't Watch TV Commercials: A good deal of TV commercials are devoted to making you eat more food, and more unhealthy food. The food industry realized a long time ago that the best way to make more money was to increase the average transaction size 增加平均購買數量of its
customers. If you eat twice as much then they make twice as much profit.
So mute靜音 the TV when commercials come on. Or better yet, tape the show, then fast forward through the commercials (you don't have time for commercials, trust me, life is too short). - Do Something Fun After Each Meal: One of the best ways to break the habit of over-eating is to have something reserved保留 for after your meals that you enjoy doing. Maybe it's reading a book, checking your emails, watching a movie, or playing an instrument, or calling your friend. That way you'll be more excited to get your meal done than hanging around at the dinner table.
- Eat Healthier: Often people are hungry because their food lacks so many essential nutrients必需營養素. You're eating but you're not getting any real nourishment真正的營養. Make sure you're taking a multi-vitamin/mineral.
Try to eat organic foods有機食品as much as possible which were grown in nutrient rich soil. Yes, this is more expensive, but that's the price you pay for REAL food. Most of the genetically-modified轉基因, fast-growing stuff on the shelves has artificially deflated prices. Likewise, eat only grass-fed meat青草餵養肉.
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The fact you're not eliminating toxins消除毒素 (which is exactly what a bowel movement大便 is) means that your entire body is suffering. You may be aware of things such as...
- Headaches that just get worse the longer you go without a bowel movement.
- Irritability易怒 because you just feel rotten腐爛 inside.
- Weight gain that just won't go away, even if you're not eating all that much.
- Fatigue疲勞 and lack of enthusiasm 缺乏熱情for life.
- Sleepless nights that make you dread害怕 going to work the next day.
- Bloating腹脹 and gas that's just outright embarrassing尷尬.
- Low libido性慾低.
You don't want waste廢物 food sitting around in your colon結腸 for more than 24 hours. You want it out of you.
Most diseases start in the colon. If you don't deal with this today, it's only going to get worse tomorrow. A year will slip by and your situation will be even harder to correct.
But if you get started now, in a year's time this may all be over.
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Beverages
One of my patients told me about his neighbours. They are an elderly couple, retired, who both suffer from a host of bodily ills. Of course, they accept these as a product of "aging 衰老."
Sure, as you get older your body's going to wear down, but is that because of time, or because of exposure to the wrong things?
When you're born your body is normally in excellent health. A fetus (胎兒) will draw from its mother's body the best of the best of what she has to offer. Once born, the body has to make the best of what it can get.
Usually, we fuel it up with not only cheap fuel, but the wrong type of fuel. We literally pour foods into our body that are largely incompatible不相容的. The body actually has to take "emergency" action to stop some foods, like corn syrup玉米糖漿, from harming us. The liver肝臟 and pancreas胰臟 need to kick in to stabilize the high rush in blood sugar. The immune system needs to switch to RED ALERT as unhealthy bacteria細菌 feed off undigested sugar particles and multiply.
So, anyways, my patient saw his elderly neighbour hobbling up the driveway, in obvious pain. He knows that he suffers from joint pain 關節疼痛and stomach problems.
But in his hand, as he hobbles up the driveway from his car, is a 2L bottle of Coca-Cola which he just made a special trip to the convenience store for.
Now, this shouldn't diminish your sympathy for him - instead it should increase it. I mean, it's like going to the hardware store and buying a drill bit, so you can go home and make holes in your hand.
Today, I just wanted to talk briefly about three common beverages飲料 that can cause constipation, bloating腹脹 and an upset stomach:
1. Pop.
2. Coffee/tea.
3. Juice.
I bet you were surprised to see juice on the list? And, yes, some juice is doubly bad雙重的有害 because it has sugar added. Avoid that type of juice entirely.
Regular 100% juice is "okay," especially if you've just run around the block at top speed and need to get your blood sugar up. But keep in mind it's basically just a drink of natural
sugar. It absorbs straight直接 into your bloodstream血液 in less than 30 minutes. If you don't need that type of energy boost加強 it's going to get stored as fat.
You're probably best getting used to eating fruit instead, and when you do drink juice, dilute稀釋 it 50/50 with water.
I don't really encourage you to drink any pop. It's basically sugar water with little or no nutritional value and a lot of negative side-effects. You don't need it. Ever.
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