Healing with Nature

The topic of fat is popular, especially in the United States which harbors the most obese and overweight people in the world. The population is getting fatter and fatter and the costs to the country are getting higher and higher. Here is a recent article linking ovarian cancer with dietary fat: http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN0943726120071009?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&pageNumber=1 .

In the article the number of 20 percent fat is a good amount to aim for but the group that had the lower amount of cancers were consuming 24 percent of their calories from fat. Here is another article: http://www.cancerproject.org/diet_cancer/facts/foods_prevention.php .

This article mentions that a diet that is made up of well below 30 percent fat will have anti-cancer affects, and that studies show the number should be in the 10 to 15 percent range. The two articles do agree about the percentages as the first one did not bring the fat percentages low enough to have an anti-cancer affect but there were major differences in cancer rates anyways. This indicates that the right track is the lowest fat percentages. Unless a person is eating foods with absolutely no fats at all (such as dates which have nearly no fat) and is not consuming any fats, there will be sufficient covert (meaning not obvious or visible) fat in your diet if you elliminated all overt (obvious or visible) fat.

The healthiest and most nutritious diet for humans is one that reduces or even eliminates the overt fats. This means that it is best to avoid all fatty foods such as nuts, seeds, fatty fruit like avocado and durian, and of course all oils to improve health. Small quantities of these fatty foods can be a part of a healthy diet but most people tend to go overboard and it is probably best to avoid them altogether.

There are a lot of people who think they need to cleanse their body or colon in order to improve their health. Even some prominent raw food diet followers advocate that people should or must do these procedures before they can acheive health.

There is nothing further from the truth. Our colon is designed with one purpose and that is a conduit for the removal of solid waste from our digestive system. It also serves to reabsorb water and a few traces of nutrients from the food but it’s primary function is to guide the waste to the rectum where it can be removed from the body through the anus. The motion is one way, from the small bowel to the rectum.

It was not designed to take any matter in from the anus whatsoever. Using enemas is not only not helpful to health but can be very damaging to health. The colon can not deal with anything coming in from the other end and it can not defend itself from this occurance. There is always a risk of infection from anything that is inserted into the anus and there is the danger of perferation.

Besides all of this there are many documented cases of people who abused enemas who became dependent on an enema just to have a bowel movement. These people can not even have a bowel movement without using an enema. Colonics are basically the same as enemas as they are inserted into the anus. Cleanses in general are taken by mouth and are said to cause the body to remove the built up waste and toxins.

This is absolutely nonsense as only the body itself can remove toxins and built up waste and no drink is capable of doing this. It is possible that after consuming a drink the person might see that their stool contains certain elements that are not normally in their stool but this is not indicating that the drink is removing waste or toxins by any means, it is just indicating that the drink itself is absorbing something from your digestive system, which might not be waste or toxic at all but even useful nutrients.

If a person follows a healthy regimen which includes a healthy diet and all of the other healthy lifestyle activities which are discussed on this web site the body will be able to remove all the toxins and built up waste it needs to and retain the nutrients that it needs. There is no drink or food in particular that can do any better than the body itself. Don’t cause your body more harm and stress by using colonics, enemas or cleanses, just follow natural hygiene and your health will come naturally.