Show habits cause of constipation the hustle and bustle of the abe average persons dally life in this machine age the lack ot of time to create a habit improper foods or freak diets pandering to the almost universal desire for slenderness insufficient clent fluid intake and other factors contribute to the prevalence of constipation I 1 am quoting dr clayton C perry cleveland ohio in an article on constipation in medical world I 1 believe dr perrys statement that the lack of 0 time to create a habit Is one of the great truths as to the cause of constipation with a great miny many individuals there Is the hurried breakfast and no time for or thought of the intestinal habit and so common is constipation that he be states further it Is s so rare in my experience to finah patient who Is not constipated that I 1 have come to look with awo awe and wonder at those who tell me that their bowels move naturally and regularly Hi histories stores reviewed A review of consecutive case histories 0 of f patients examined in my office except cancer patients revealed that complained of constipation sti pation and used cathartics among the 71 patients however there were several with diarrhea and coll colitis if these cases are excluded the number with normal bowel habits Is small email one of the conclusions come to by dr perry is that a large harge breakfast is one of the most important factors in correcting constipation with this conclusion most physicians will agree because a hurried light breakfast does not give the impulse to the digestive tract to move and drive wastes downward the very weight or heaviness of a meal will in id itself give considerably stronger impulses to the whole digestive tract stomach small intestine and large incest intestine in e it Is difficult for the average individual to sit down and eat a good breakfast in a leisurely manner and to take time to litand elfland read the paper for a few minutes after break fast seems impossible yet if this same individual were to retire a halt half hour earlier paget up a half hour earlier he rould easily eat a larger read his paper and reach q office or factory in plenty of time released by western newspaper union I 1 |