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Show Your Health Constipation Not Disease, But Result of Bad Habits and mailing, to Tlx Salt Laka Tribune-Telegram Horn Service Bureau, Salt Lake City 10, Utah, and ask (or your copy. By James W. Barton, M. D. There Is no doubt that constipation constipa-tion Is a very common complaint, but the Idea that poisons in the waste matter to f-v-rwi the lower bowel f Mf - get absorbed Into ? fc the blood in suf- L. y& 1 ficient quantities f, to poison the f "1 I blood to not true. , Some years ago, . !, Dr. Walter A.1- 1 W ' Teres. MayofX J , clinic, showedl V .-1 that the tired-1 X L ness and listless- 7 - ness of the con- ' Barton Upated individual was not caused by poisoning of the blood (autointoxication) (auto-intoxication) but by the pressure and "dragging" effect of too much Waste in the lower bowel. As a matter of fact, the lower bowel hi not supposed to be empty at any time. It is not Just a sewer 'or reservoir containing wastes. An empty bowel Is not really a healthy bowel; there should be always some wastes which, as they accumulate, accu-mulate, press on the sides of the bowel. This pressure stimulates the nerve supplying the muscles, and these muscles then queeze the wastes downward and out of the body. In the Mayo clinic number of "Medical Clinics of North America." Amer-ica." Dr. Phillip W. Brown, associate asso-ciate professor of medicine, states that constipation is not a disease. It Is a habit resulting from wrong-habits wrong-habits of Hvuur. "It Is true that patients often complain of head- ache, tiredness and constipation, but these complaints are merely the expression of signs of nervous tension or nervous fatigue. Peo-people Peo-people must understand that they fatigue and headaches are byproducts by-products or results of tense and faulty living habits." This same underlying tension causes a "slowing" "slow-ing" action on the lower bowel through the nervous system. Dr. Brown suggests that physicians phy-sicians should observe the following follow-ing points in instructing a patient suffering with constipation. 1. The effect of nervous tension, slowing effect on the boweL 2. The neglect of the patient to always and immediately answer the "call" to stool. 3. About two quarts of fluid should be drunk each day, and more If there is loss of fluid by '. perspiration. 4. Lack of exercise, changing to a sit-down job; going away to school, inadequate toilet facilities soay help cause constipation. 5. Prtaper ; diet milk,' meat, eggs, whole grain cereals, vegetables, vege-tables, fruit and butter and the meals about equal ia size er amount. CoastipatioB It has been estimated that there I are more persons with constipation constipa-tion than there are without it For Information on this subject send today for Dr. Barton's helpful booklet entitled "Constipation." To obtain it, send 10c and a 3c stamp, to cover-cost of handling |