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It’s ironic that while society is obsessed with fitness and weight loss, fast food restaurants are more popular than ever and obese childhood obesity are at record highs. It is hardly surprising that the snake-oil purveyors of today are using the same methodology that their distant cousins used in the decades gone by: while in the past any tincture promised to be “love in a bottle” today’s con artist promises that every tincture, mix of pills and caplets, and supplemental regimen spells “weight loss in a bottle.” Of course, considering that weight loss and attractiveness to the opposite sex go hand in hand, perhaps the snake-oil salesmen of old and the modern batch still have a lot more in common than meets the eyes, even though today’s crop is adding an additional step in between supplement and love.

It is, therefore, not surprising that those selling colon cleansers on the internet are often adding claims of startling weight loss to their shticks. Yet as much as one would like to disagree with the clever ‘Net sales people, they do have a point! Here are some startling facts why high quality colon cleanses guarantee weight loss success:

Mathematics bears out the brunt of the argument. Consider an individual who has lived most of her or his life on the typical American diet rich in processed foods, animal fat, sugar, toxins, and other undesirable additives. As the fecal matter becomes compacted in the colon and builds up, the odds are good that after a few decades there will be several pounds of matter stuffed into the colon. When a colon cleanser is used to flush out the matter, pounds upon pounds of waste matter will leave the body, thus making it lighter.

While mathematics showcases that there is a certain weight loss associated with a colon cleansing regimen, the weight loss stops as soon as the colon cleanse is completed, correct? Wrong! The weight loss success continues as the colon is functioning properly! No longer does the body demand more food to feed its organs which are starving for nutrients, but instead the nutrients which are now being ingested are properly absorbed and thus the body signals fullness a lot sooner. While those given to overeating for psychological reasons will still need to deal with behavior modification, those who overate due to bodily demands will find that the weight they have gained will begin to melt away since they are no longer overfeeding their bodies simply to satisfy nutritional needs.

Finally, as the fecal matter and its inherent toxins are made to leave your body, your organs will no longer have to fight the attack of the toxins and their byproducts but instead get back to the tasks they were intended; thus, your kidneys and liver will once again be at peak performance, while your pancreas and stomach will have the ability to deal with the digestion of food properly. Once again this will decrease the body’s perceived need for food intake, since it is no longer in danger of starving for nutrients. Weight loss is inevitable.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more informaton on Colon Cleansing.

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Tags: Colon Cleansing, toxins, weight loss

While they are known as “the beautiful people,” there is a lot more to the lifestyle of a fashion model than meets the eye. Sure, their faces and slim figures grace the cover pages magazines, and while their faces may not launch a thousand ships, they do inspire fashion trends, makeup fads, and also a bodily awareness.

While pictures can be airbrushed and altered with the help of computer imaging, the real life presence of the model needs to be in harmony with the image she is cultivating. That means her hair must be lustrous while at the same time her complexion needs to be clear and positively glowing. Cuticles and nails need to look healthy, weight distribution needs to be near perfect, and - even though it is rarely ever thought of - models also need to excel in the absence of body odor. Sure, nobody ever walks up to a model and puts her to the sniff test, but everyone will notice if inordinate amounts of cloying perfume or cologne have been used to mask something that still finds its way through eventually.

If you’ve ever picked up a tabloid you probably have wondered how models stay so thin. Well, they have an insider’s secret. What is that secret? It’s the colon cleanse. For models, the colon cleanse is part of their arsenal against premature aging, unwanted bodily odors, and unhealthy looking complexions.

It is interesting that models see the inner workings of their bodies as being akin to a sewer system. While pollutants, waste products and toxins will inevitably find their way into the body, they also need to be expelled as soon as possible. Granted, a colon cleanse is an occasional regimen, yet even so it needs to be considered as a regular purge that sweeps clean the bodily sewer system, and as such it is one of the most powerful secret tools of highly paid models. Their understanding of their own bodies is in many ways more detailed than that of the average person, in part because work as a model demands a good understanding of and working relationship with the body instead of against it.

Fashion models don’t just starve themselves. They also undergo regular fasts that focus on sufficient hydration, the administration of salts, and the purging of toxins and bodily pollutants by gently flushing them out of the body. The tricks to a healthy colon cleanse experience that mimics the secrets fashion models know is taking it slow.

So, if you are finally ready to commit to a colon cleanse, the key is a patient gradual cleanse versus a harsh overnight cleanse. Going slow will permit your body to gradually shed toxins and pollutants and thus will keep you healthy looking and energetic. Flushing out toxins too quickly, as will be done if you choose to do a colon cleanse during a water fast, will leave you looking and feeling tired, dull, and achy.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more informaton on Colon Cleansing.

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Tags: Colon Cleansing, toxins

Colon cleansing is a must for good health. Unfortunately colon cleansings are not generally covered by medical insurance. For some individuals the cost associated with the colon hydrotherapy sessions is simply too steep. Luckily, there is a methodology that may be followed in the privacy of your home that may not provide the exact same results as hydrotherapy, but which comes fairly close in its goal to cleanse the colon of harmful toxin and accumulated waste products.

Supporters of at home enema colon cleanses understand that any food substances that have not been evacuated from the body within 20 hours begin to putrefy and leak toxins that are taken up by the bloodstream and thus by the various organs. If you are not sure if your colon is in good working order and rids your body of food quickly enough, pay attention to your bowel movements: you should have one after each meal! This is of course not the reality for the majority of Americans, and thus the need for an enema colon cleanse is glaringly obvious.

While the how-to of a self administered enema would appear to be a common sense approach, the fact that the topic appears taboo in so many families contributes to the lack of understanding of even the simplest dynamics. Here is a step by step approach to a properly administered at home enema for colon cleansing:

1. Purchase an enema bag and tubing. These kits are available at most pharmacies and general merchandise stores.

2. Follow the directions for connecting the tubing, fill the bag with lukewarm water, and hang it from the towel rack or any other place in your bathroom that is slightly higher than you when you are seated on the toilet.

3. Place some newspaper or other absorbent material around the toilet and then straddle the toilet, bending at the waist. Gently insert the tube into your rectum and permit the water to flow into your lower intestine. Do not permit more water to enter your rectum than you can hold comfortably!

4. As the water is present, gently apply light pressure to your lower abdomen in an effort to manually loosen the fecal matter. Sit on the toilet and release the liquid and whatever matter is ready to evacuate.

5. Repeat step number four six or seven times (or however long it takes to gradually flush your colon with about one and one half to two gallons of water), kneading your lower abdomen a little harder each time, working your way from the left to the right.

Ideally, this process should be repeated twice a day for about a week, in conjunction with a high fiber diet. Interestingly, there is a lot of lore that has sprung up about enemas in general, and in connection with colon cleansing in particular, and it is important to differentiate the reality from the hype. To this end, do not use the commercially available fleet enemas since the substance is toxic and does little to contribute to the healing of your colon! Stick to saline and oil.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more informaton on Colon Cleansing.

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Tags: Colon Cleansing

Have you ever heard of anthraquinone? Unless you work in the chemical field, the odds are good that you have never head of this compound. Yet, if you have a colon cleanser in your medicine cabinet that touts its natural ingredients on the label, the odds are good that you have it in your possession! Anthraquinone is famous for its laxative properties, and since it naturally occurs in a variety of plants it is not surprising that it has found its way into colon cleansers that are made up of natural ingredients.

Examine the label of your colon cleansing product and see if contains aloe derivatives, senna, and cascara sagrada which is also known as buckthorn bark. Virtually all of the natural colon cleansers currently on the market contain one or more of these substances and thus the levels of anthraquinone are quite frequently much higher than you would anticipate. In the chemical field, the substance is used as an additive to seed shells which is supposed to repel eager birds looking for food. Similarly, paper production companies rely on this derivative of various plants for both its coloring properties as well as its ability to move the chemical process along.

While the laxative properties of this substance cannot be denied, it is the fact that the reason why bowel movements and the evacuation of excess fecal matter is accomplished so quickly may be found in the fact that anthraquinone is actually an irritant that causes the gut flora to react to a perceived disturbance. This can lead to sometimes severe cramping, discolored urine, a sudden onset of uncontrollable diarrhea and also a loss of the beneficial bacteria that reside inside the gastrointestinal tract and which protect the colon from the attacks of dangerous bacteria. In addition to the foregoing, the gut flora ensures the proper absorption of nutrients. If it becomes irritated it may decrease digestion of nutrients.

Furthermore - and this probably will not apply to you, but nonetheless it is important to know - the abuse of colon cleansers as quick diet supplements has created an underbelly in the alternative health care industry. As such, it has become well known that an abuse of colon cleansers containing anthraquinone has been linked with a serious electrolyte deficiency that expresses itself in uncontrollable muscle spasms and twitches. Granted, this is only associated with abuse of the substances and is in no way considered to be a valid side effect of the proper use of a natural colon cleanser; yet it is imperative to realize that such an ingredient may be traced back to a number of sources, and if your natural colon cleanse is manufactured with one or both eyeballs on the bottom line, the odds are good that you will have more substances contained therein that ensure a laxative effect, thus a higher dose or anthraquinone. It is logical that it takes a lot less of this colon cleanser to constitute abuse of the substance, even if it is only an accidental overdose due to a misreading of the instructions.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more informaton on Colon Cleansing.

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Tags: anthraquinone, Colon Cleansing

If you have been shopping for a healthy, gentle, and effective colon cleanser, you will have undoubtedly read many labels. While the labels of natural supplements all begin to look the same after awhile, you might be wondering why may have suddenly stumbled across one that proclaims the benefits of oxygen. Why would you want to pay for something that is free? The fact is, oxygen is a very important component of a colon cleanse, and if you really want to understand whether a colon cleanser containing oxygen is full of hot air, consider the effects of oxygen on your bloodstream.

Oxygen is needed by your body to live, and the release of it into the bloodstream will nourish your organs and permit them to function. Could they get the same kind of oxygen from your breathing? Yes, they can. Yet when you are undergoing a colon cleanse the fact that you will be changing your food intake and also hastening along the bowel movement will affect the way you move, exercise and thus breathe. This, in turn, may starve some of your organs of the life giving compound, which, when supplemented, will take away the fatigue so often associated with a colon cleanse regimen. Furthermore, the oxygen contained in some colon cleansers will aid the chemical reactions that lead to a gradual evacuation of the fecal matter you are seeking to void. Other chemical reactions produced by supplements that do not utilize oxygen will produce results more quickly, yet at the same time they will be more painful, harsher on your system, and very often damage the delicate balance of bacteria inside your intestines.

Granted, if you are undergoing a colon cleanse to counteract constipation, you most likely do want things to move along a bit quicker. Yet if you truly consider the effects of rushing your bowel evacuation, remember that it is not the time spent between downing the concoction and having that first bowel movement, but instead it is the impact - or lack thereof - on your body as a whole that makes a colon cleanse a success or a failure. Even the harshest laxative will provide bowel movements like clockwork, yet are the cramps, the pain, the buildup of gas, the nausea, and the bloating really worth it? Would it not make more sense instead to gently clear out the colon, even if it will take longer and require more patience?

The ultimate goal of a colon cleanse is to reduce the toxic fecal matter accumulated in your intestines. Gentle cleansers will minimize the negative impact on your body while at the same time help your body to reap the benefits of the procedure. If your cleanser is harsh and causes internal interruption, your body will first need to heal before you will be able to feel the increased energy and other positive effects of a normally functioning colon. Thus, it is a fallacy to assume that only speed of fecal evacuation matters. Instead, the oxygen generated inside your intestines will enable you to rid your body of accumulated waste naturally, gradually and gently over time, mimicking the natural function of the gut and colon.

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Scott Meyers is a staff writer for It’s Entirely Natural, a resource for helping you achieve a naturally healthy body, mind, and spirit. You may contact our writers through the web site. Follow this link for more informaton on Colon Cleansing.

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Tags: Colon Cleansing, fatigue