Colon Cleansing Diet

Whatever else you do for the health of your colon, a colon cleansing diet is essential for long-term colon health.

A colon cleansing diet will boost the effectiveness of any colon cleansing therapies you choose to take. Ultimately – and most importantly – it will help the colon function efficiently without help, or with just the occasional cleanse to keep it in tip-top condition.

Certainly a colon-friendly diet is recommended by the medical profession. The exact causes of many disorders and diseases of the colon remain unclear but in almost all cases a poor diet is a known risk factor. That is, people who do not eat a colon-friendly diet are known to have a greater risk of developing colon problems including colon cancer.

So what is a good colon cleansing diet?

A good colon diet helps the colon do its work easily. It includes foods that are easy to break down as well as materials that cannot be digested. Unfortunately, the modern diet is short on both.

Modern food contains complex, processed and super-refined ingredients that are relatively new to man, and therefore the colon. For instance, refined sugars, saturated fats, preservatives and chemicals. Friendly bacteria in the colon have to work hard (and not always successfully) to break them down.

The modern diet also contains little in the way of “indigestibles.” It may seem pointless to eat foods the body cannot digest but they essential for a healthy colon. A key function of the colon is to eliminate waste – toxins, harmful bacteria and so on – in the form of stools. Indigestibles provide stools with bulk. The bulkier the stools, the easier it is for the colon walls to push them down and out towards the rectum.

In short, a good colon cleansing diet needs to be everything the modern day diet is not – high in natural, unprocessed foods and ingestibles such as fiber. Or to put it another way, as close to the type of diet our ancestors used to eat as possible.

This means that starting a colon cleansing diet is as simple as learning which foods cleanse the colon, which to avoid and making healthier choices in the supermarket.

A colon cleansing diet can be supplemented with specialty foodstuffs such as flax seeds and brans, as well as herbal colon cleanse and detox supplements. It is also important to drink plenty of water but not too much – consuming far more water than you really need is can cause hyponatremia. Exercise is also good for colon health. Again, no need to overdo it – a regular daily walk will help keep things moving.

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