Lessons learned from constipation
Here’s an excerpt from Wheat Belly Total Health about constipation. As uninteresting as it can seem at first glance, constipation can offer useful insights into diet and health, but not simple-minded insights like “get more fiber.”
A condition as pedestrian as constipation serves to perfectly illustrate many of the ways in which grains mess with normal body functions, as well as just how wrong conventional “solutions” can stray, Keystone Kops of health stumbling, fumbling, and bumping into each other, but never quite putting out the fire. Drop a rock from the top of a building and it predictably hits the ground—-not sometimes, not half the time, but every time. That’s how the bowels are programmed to work, as well: put food in the mouth, it should come out the other end, preferably that same day, certainly no later than tomorrow. People living primitive lives without grains, sugars, and soft drinks enjoy such predictable bowel behavior: Eat some turtle, fish, clams, mushrooms, coconut or mongongo nuts for breakfast, out it all comes that afternoon or evening, large, steamy, filled with undigested remains and prolific quantities of bacteria, no straining, laxatives, or stack of magazines required.
Live a modern life and have pancakes with maple syrup for breakfast instead. You’ll be lucky to pass that out by tomorrow or the next day. Or perhaps you will be constipated, not passing out your pancakes and syrup for days, passing it incompletely...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel health cellulose constipation fiber grains prebiotic Source Type: blogs
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