How The Health Of Our Colon Affects Our Total Health
by Helen M. Wood As published at HealthE-Living News
The Colon is a tube approximately five feet long and 2 1/2 inches in diameter.
A healthy colon has uniform size and tone. It extends from the cecum, where it joins the small intestine, up and across the abdominal cavity and down the left side of the body until it reaches the sigmoid and rectum.
The three main functions of the colon are:
- Final digestion of our food.
- The elimination of digestive residue.
- The discharge of toxins and wastes from our body.
We experience better health and well-being when the colon is clean and functioning normally. When the colon is congested with stagnant wastes, poisons back up into our system and pollutes the inner environment. This is called auto-intoxication which literally means "self-poisioning." All the body's tissues are affected by the auto-intoxication. There are many contributing factors to auto-intoxication from a toxic bowel.
Improper diet, insufficient exercise, stress, overeating, and ignoring the "call of nature" can all lead to bowel problems. Most of us for instance, have had years of poor to average nutritional food. Much of our food is subjected to processing which includes refining, frying and over cooking, saturating the mineral elements of our food with oil or grease. As a result of this food altering, the digestive organs cannot process the minerals efficiently and they are passed out of the small intestine into the colon as waste.
The consumption of mucous producing foods such as meat, dairy, and processed flour, cause dense sticky bowel movements. Excess mucous in our system is a sign of trouble. Mucosic stools are difficult for the body to eliminate. When they are expelled, they leave a glue-like coating on the wall of the colon which accumulates layer by layer into a hard rubbery crust.
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