Quick Facts About Constipation
July 27th, 2007
- A word that means bowel movements are infrequent, difficult and seemingly incomplete and stools appear hard and dry. This could be due to diet, stress, dehydration, anxiety, illness, drugs and minimum physical activity.
- Constipation can be treated and prevented by combining a high-fiber diet, exercise and careful use of laxatives. However if a disease is causing constipation then the disease needs to be treated.
- The squat position is still the best position to release bowels.
- Hear these words from Dr. Denis Burkitt in Brian Kellock’s book ‘The Fibre Man’ (Lion Publishing plc, 1985): “If you put fibre into a glass of water, what happens? It absorbs water and swells. In the gut fibre will hold the water partly by mechanical attraction and partly by providing food for the bacteria which are 80 per cent water anyway. So fibre ensures the presence of a large soft, easy-moving mass. It is strongly protective against constipation, and by this and other means provides protection against many diseases of the gut.”
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