Severe constipation....

[jonnyflash]

Did u know, according to my girlfriend, 50% of Japanese women do #2 only once per week? I can never picture anyone in North America doing that......
She figures it has something to do with the lack of vegetable bulk and whole grains in the Japanese diet.

[Mark Wessels]

three toed sloths only deficate once a week. They climb down the tree that they live in, and deficate at the base. The flies that often live off of them as parasites use this opportunity to lay eggs in their fecal matter and then climb back aboard for the incredibly slow ride back up the tree.

Love,

mfw

[em]

and a jaguar will wait at the foot of the tree as they know the sloth will come down and have to poo. getting eaten whilst you poo can't be that fun really.Especially if you are half way through the crossword.

[Greedybogle]

A female friend of mine said she only shat twice or maybe three times in a week. I was amazed - I do that much in a day sometimes...now, I am 6'3" and weigh less than 160 lbs, and have a fairly high metabolism, but still...that sounds wrong. She tried to say that it was normal for females, even in the states...others agreed with her. Can this be true? I am freaked out.

[Butterfly Man]

If there is one thing I know about ... it is shit!

Constipation is promoted or even caused by lack of enzymes ...

The primary effect on the blood resulting from a diet of cooked or otherwise processed, enzyme-less food is know as erythrocyte aggregation. This means the red blood cells clump in a formation, similar to a stack of coins or else in a shapeless mass. Imagine what this does for circulation, since the smallest blood vessels--the capillaries--have an inside diameter only large enough to allow the cells to go through single file... It's simple fluid mechanics: This clumping puts great resistance on the heart, contributing to high blood pressure. Sluggish blood also impairs immune function by slowing down circulating white cells...

If a blockage exists somewhere in the digestive tract, the person will be contributing further to the obstruction by packing down more indigestible food. Unclogging the processed debris that may have been accumulating in the stomach and intestines can only be reversed by taking supplemental enzymes.

By taking enzymes between meals, on an empty stomach, the enzyme energy is absorbed into the bloodstream to go to work breaking down some of the long-term food residues that have made their way into the circulation. This is known as blood detoxification. The best enzymes have been designed to resist breakdown in the digestive tract, and to be absorbed intact into the blood, the same way as other short-chain amino acids and proteins. Once in the bloodstream, these natural food enzymes can undo some of the damage caused by months or years of eating a diet high in processed or other enzyme-less foods...

Enzymes are the foundation of energy and the life force in all living things. They are responsible for building, detoxifying, and healing your body. They are the force that allows your body to digest and absorb food. They also regulate tens of thousands of other biochemical functions that take place every day in your body to include breathing, growing, smelling, tasting, stimulating nerves, defending your body against disease, regulating hormones, and building organs, glands, and tissues. Even your thinking involves enzymes...

There are two sources of enzymes: endogenous, meaning those that originate within our body; and exogenous, meaning those we ingest that originate outside our body. There are essentially three categories of these enzymes; metabolic enzymes, which work in the blood, tissues, and organs; metabolic digestive enzymes, which work with the digestive organs: and food enzymes (found in all raw food), which also aid the digestive process. Enzymes can be formed only from and in organic living matter. Where there are no enzymes, there is no life.

Each enzyme has a very specific function to perform in the body. How the nervous system functions is one example of the critical role electrical energy plays in our body. The nervous system uses electrical energy via nerve impulses to transmit messages from one cell in the body to another. Muscle movement, glandular secretion, temperature regulation, and even thought depend on electrical energy.

Our body cannot utilize essential vitamins, mineral, trace elements, and other nutrients without enzymes. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies can have devastating effects on the body. Your body will not benefit unless the nutrients in your food are unlocked and absorbed. Most vitamin and mineral supplements are only 40% absorbable and thus 60% is urinated out of the body without being used at all, perhaps even more depending upon your body's overall health and functioning ability...

Metabolic enzymes are required to build nutrients into blood, bones, teeth, nerves, organs, and tissues...

If our body is not consistently supplied with he raw materials needed to manufacture these enzymes over a period of time our body becomes enzyme deficient. This results in constipation...

The optimal materials our bodies need to produce our life energy are nutrient-dense and enzyme-rich foods. Our bodies need exogenous food enzymes to help break down food during the digestive process into nutrients the body can assimilate. You might be thinking, "If our bodies already produce digestive enzymes, why do we need food enzymes?" If the body is continually overburdened to manufacture excess metabolic enzymes in order to digest devitalized, enzyme deficient food, then at some point our body's ability to manufacture metabolic enzymes needed for other processes is compromised.

The most serious threat to the body's supply of endogenous enzymes is the habit of eating cooked and processed foods. Cooking or processing food over 118 degrees totally destroys the enzymes in the food. You will not find enzymes in foods that are in a box, bottle, or can. Cooking also contributes to nutrient loss. Pasteurization, sterilization, radiation, freezing, and microwaving either render food enzymes inactive or alter their structure.

We do not see animals in the wild suffering from heart disease, cancer, indigestion, diabetes, PMS, chronic fatigue, gall stones, vision problems, arthritis, et al. Fresh, unprocessed foods supply us with the necessary enzymes and coenzymes required by our body to function properly. Unfortunately most people do not eat enough fresh whole foods to compensate for the enzyme-deficient foods consumed. Fortunately, food enzyme dietary supplements are available, and medical research shows that food enzyme supplements are helpful during the digestive process.

Stress, strenuous exercise, pregnancy, frequent colds, exposure to extreme temperatures, and fevers all require tremendous enzyme activity. Fried foods, caffeine, alcohol, drugs, tobacco, and other stimulants also cause immense quantities of metabolic enzymes to be produced and generate cell-damaging substances called free radicals. Free radical molecules are highly reactive, unstable, and capable of destroying an enzyme, a protein molecule, or a complete cell through oxidation by stealing electrons from other nearby molecules. Sunlight, radiation, chemical solvents, paints, cleaning products, motor oil and gasoline, are more examples of cell-damaging substances that generate free radicals...

Free radicals can interfere with DNA coding so severe that the body may make mutated enzymes that cannot function and cells that cannot reproduce...

Our bodies try to protect us from free radical damage by producing enzymes containing antioxidants called SOD (Super Oxide Dismutase), which scavenge and neutralize free radicals. The most widely known exogenous protective antioxidants are beta-carotene, vitamins A, C, and E, selenium, and zinc. Antioxidant enzymes improve circulation, reduce inflammation, and bond with collagen, which promotes cell integrity, However, as I stated earlier, most vitamins and minerals we take are not even 50% absorbable into our bodies and unusable. Thus, we pee them out...

Early signs of enzyme deficiency are digestive complaints such as heartburn, gas, bloating, belching, constipation, diarrhea, stomach aches, and even include headaches, chronic fatigue, and yeast infections. Because these symptoms are so prevalent, many people consider them to be "normal." However, they are an indication that the body cannot process the food eaten. Digestive problems concern the stomach, intestines, colon, liver, pancreas, and gall bladder...

Digestive disease is the major cause for hospitalization--more than any other disease category. Eating enzyme-less food compromises every aspect of the digestive process: digestion, absorption, assimilation, and elimination. All of these processes are essential for good nutrition and a healthy body...

Enzymes and fiber are essential for proper digestion and elimination. Sadly, the typical diet is generally significantly lacking in these requirements. Fiber acts as a bulking agent and speeds transit time of food in the digestive tract. These actions prevent metabolic waste from creating toxic byproducts. A major benefit of fiber is that it binds acids to bile and carries the bile along with excess fats out of the body. Fiber helps to lower cholesterol, reduce the risk of heart disease, lower blood pressure, improve blood sugar, and promote the growth of friendly intestinal flora. It also promotes bowel regularity, aids digestion, and helps to keep the bowel clean...

Fiber cannot do its job effectively unless enzymes do theirs. Over time, hard-to-digest high protein foods (such as cooked meat and other enzyme-efficient foods) exhaust the digestive organs until they can no longer function efficiently. This results in the accumulation of partially digested food in the bowel. By middle age many people have as much as 20 pounds of undigested, putrefactive food in their colon. Toxins produced from this putrefactive buildup are reabsorbed into the bloodstream, creating autointoxication, or self-poisoning. This results in a dramatically weakened immune system and can lead to serious debilitating health problems including colon cancer. Supplemental food enzymes taken with meals and between meals can work to help eliminate the accumulation of toxic wastes in the stomach and colon.

Enzymes act as scavengers of foreign substances throughout the body preventing joints from gumming up and arteries from clogging. Enzymes in the body's white blood cells are responsible for destroying foreign, disease-producing substances in the blood and lymph. During illness and infection, white blood cells increase to fight off pathogens. When cooked foods are eaten, the body reacts just as though we had an acute illness. Within 30 minutes of eating cooked foods, our white-blood-cell count increases dramatically. This means that the immune system is being unnecessarily called into action virtually every time we eat. Studies show that mobilization and increase of white blood cells do not happen when raw food is consumed. Molecules from improperly digested proteins and fats that are small enough to get into the blood, but too large to get into he cells, are called floating immune complexes. They are now considered toxic invaders in the body instead of nutrients causing red blood cells to stick together, which results in lack of surface area and creates low oxygen content. This can lead to chronic fatigue, migraine headaches, and poor circulation. Also, cholesterol and uric acid crystals, which could lead to arthritis or gout, and plaque due to undigested fats, which can lead to arteriosclerosis. We also see free radical damage, which we discussed earlier that can have devastating consequences. It takes a concentrated effort from white blood cells to digest floating immune complexes to protect our body from other toxic invaders. Meanwhile the organs, tissues, and glands are robbed of their rightful share of needed enzymes...

Fat is one of the best source of energy available--as long as it is in a raw, unprocessed form. One of the primary keys to weight loss may simply be the action of enzymes. Dr. David Galton at Tufts University School of Medicine tested people weighting 230-250 pounds. He found that virtually all of them were lacking lipase enzymes in their fatty tissues. Lipase, found abundantly in raw foods, is a fat-splitting enzyme that aids the body in digestion, the storage and distribution of fat, and the burning of fat for energy. Lipase activity breaks down and dissolves fat throughout the body. Without lipase, fat stagnates and accumulates in the organs, arteries, and capillaries. You will see it on the hips, thighs, buttocks and stomach, etc...

Calcium is an abundant mineral found in numerous foods but it cannot be fully assimilated without enzymes, and without it we risk osteoporosis, or muscular fatigue and cramping...

Candidiasis adversely affects the endocrine system and nervous system and has a devastating effect on the immune system. Candidiasis is an overgrowth of common yeast that lives in the intestinal tract. Yeast overgrowth is triggered by the killing off of friendly bacteria in the intestinal tract, which generally keeps it under control...

Candidiasis and allergies affect millions of people. Cause and prevention of both conditions are similar. Allergens and antigens such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, and yeast are most often proteins that enter the body through the digestive tract. Allergens may also be breathed into the body via the lungs. Protease is a digestive enzyme needed in tremendous quantities to digest and eliminate these toxic invaders, not only in the digestive tract but in the bloodstream as well. Most antigens, including yeast, can be eliminated by taking supplemental enzymes with meals and between meals...

The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics and drinking chlorinated water play a major role in the destruction of healthy intestinal flora. When friendly bacteria are not present in sufficient quantity in the intestinal tract, unfriendly bacteria, and other types of pathogens, fungi and parasites can invade our body...

Food supplements such as lactobacillus acidophilus, lacto bacillus bulgaricus, and lacto bacillus salivarius, which are called probiotic formulas, promote healthy intestinal flora, stimulate the immune system, and boost the actions of enzymes. Sufficient friendly bacteria defend us by fighting off invading pathogens that could otherwise manifests as illness. Friendly flora also aids in the synthesis of beneficial compounds such as B vitamins, digestive enzymes, lactic acid, insulin, vitamin K, and essential fatty acids, and also help prevent digestive disorders, such as constipation, gas, bloating, intestinal and systemic toxicity, food allergies and Candidiasis. They improve bowel function by aiding peristalsis. Toxic wastes that have accumulated in the intestines are also destroyed and eliminated from the body...

So, to prevent enzyme loss you must have food enzymes in sufficient quantity to cut down the secretion of digestive enzymes. By providing your body with and abundance of enzymes you may be able to reverse many ills and significantly increase your potential for staying healthy, experiencing more vitality, and living a longer, more enjoyable life.

Now, aren’t you sorry you asked?

[Stretch]

Regular stilt walking, miles at a time, will keep you regular.
And tall!

[Butterfly Man]

Then how does one explain Martin Ewen?


BTW the aforementioned diatribe is from information I read in a Connecticut church basement... whose owner, like myself, has, at times, been accused of being "full of it".

[Stretch]

Insufficient mileage!

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[Busteroo]

I have a hard time believing tha anybody who walks for miles on stilts could ever be termed "regular"!!!
Thanks for the info Butterfly Man! And to whomever started this please print it out and read it the next time you are taking a (or rather, leaving a) s**t.
In the immortal words of Charlie Chan: "They've taken my #1 son, and left me with #2!" [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[worldwidese]

ButterflyMan- Do all those words just mean that we need to eat plenty of natural Yogurt- not the doctored up stuff- to live as long as those 100 year old peasants in Usbekistan and Turkey? Or do we need to go and live in Usbekistan or Turkey where there are no McDonalds or other fast food outlets?

[jonnyflash]

A being you and B being poo,
the quikest way from A to B is a straight line.
A line of prunes that is.
2 prunes a day and you will be exceedingly regular
ne?

Jyoni Furashi

[Mr.Taxi Trix]

[quote]Originally posted by Butterfly Man:
<strong>.. whose owner, like myself, has, at times, been accused of being "full of it".</strong><hr></blockquote>


I resemble that remark, and let me say this about that, and that would be this:
I had an apple this morning as a direct result of your post. I fully expect the health injested from said apple to ripple out from my belly into my most essential organ. And I hope it happens soon, because Terri is napping, and I'd like to wake her in the healthiest manner possible. If it works, your words will be directly responsible for my renewed health and, by injection, hers.

[Rich Potter]

Nah; the answer is colonic irrigation.

Eat what you want for 30 years; have the excess crud roto-rootered out with a fire hose.

Thanks for the info, Robert. I think I'll go have a salad.

--Rich
(Who, upon discovering a spelling mistake on the contract, stopped giving kids "balloon enemas")

[Greedybogle]

Oh, and he's vindicated!

The Bogle is a vegetarian who is making the transition to raw food only, rich in enzymes. www.living-foods.com for details on why.