Show I Two VO Methods Of Fighting Constipation By Oy nu JAMES W W. BARTON Released by Western Newspaper Union I 1 ANY think of the MANY t I persons 1 V large bowel colon bowel colon as always full of waste matter I which must be removed immediately immediately im im- imI im- I mediately to pr prevent vent the poisons poi- poi TO TODAY'S DAYS DAY'S sons in the wastes being absorbed into COLUMN the blood causing causing caus caus- ing such symptoms as laziness laziness laziness lazi lazi- ness dr drowsiness pains in joints depressed spirits and others As a matter of fact it is true that a full colon will cause the thc above symptoms partly I because of poisons being absorbed absorbed absorbed ab ab- ab- ab into the blood and also also also al al- al- al so as Dr Walter Waller Alvarez Mayo Clinic has pointed out because the thc very weight of this waste in colon may cause symptoms by pulling on the nerves in colon and its supporting supporting supporting sup sup- porting structures However nature never meant that these wastes should be vigorously pushed or flushed out by purgative medicines because a colon large bowel bow el that requires constant flushing out 5 cannot remain a healthy bowel The bowel was not meant to be completely completely completely com com- empty The healthy bowel Isable is L w. w i B able to push wastes Dr Barton downward and out of the body by means of its muscles Nature gave man two methods of ot keeping the wastes moving down the serge intestine intestine exercise exercise and rough or fibrous parts of at the food Thus all the bending exercises with knees kept straight exercise or work on the outer abdominal muscles mus cles Iles which in turn massage the muscles muscles mus mus- cles Iles of the large bowel and stimulate stimulate late action In addition the exercise exercise exercise exer exer- cise squeezes the liver which causes an extra flow of bile into the intestine intestine intes intes- tine and bile bUe is natures nature's purgative Roughage Needed The fibrous foods which not only rub against the nerve endings of large bowel and stimulate bowel action ac tion also have something In them aside from the roughness which stimulates the bowel Thus the easIly easIly easily ily digested foods meat foods meat eggs fat tat sugar and starches starches starches-do do not leave enough rough or fibrous waste to stimulate bowel action so that foods with hard or fibrous waste in them fruits vegetables and cereals cereals- must be eaten to prevent tion Nervous high strung Individuals with a tendency to stomach or in intestinal intestinal In in- ulcer must of at course avoid these rough foods |