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INTESTINAL CLEANSING
- Almost everybody in America could use several weeks on a good, cleansing diet designed to renew the colon. Here's why.
Most of us grew up eating plenty of dairy, meat and other high-fat foods, sugar, and chemicals. Many of us have taken frequent doses of antibiotics or birth control pills.
These foods and drugs, when routinely consumed, can destroy beneficial, aerobic bacteria in the intestines, which help to digest our food.
A healthy gut has millions of these friendly bacteria. They thrive on grains and vegetables, and produce B vitamins to help. us cope with stress. But if we eat too much sugar, meat, etc., they die off. Unfriendly, anaerobic bacteria take their place, inhibiting proper digestion.
The result? Foods stagnate and putrify inside us, especially if there's no fiber to keep things moving. Pocket_ of hard fecal matter line the colon walls. Abdominal muscles become too tense or loose
(either way, losing their ability to push). Constipation, loose stools, unpleasant
_as and odors become the norm.
Recently, with the increasing use of antibiotics, many research doctors report that the candida bacteria, which originally
overgrows in the intestines, can apparently spread throughout the body, causing a wide variety of seemingly unrelated.symptoms: headaches, confusion, bloating, food allergies, gas, and more (see William Crook, The Yeast Connection_L.
A cleansing diet can do much to reverse these symptoms, re-establish beneficial
bacteria, and encourage new muscle tone in the colon. See the next page, for colon cleansing guidelines.
Gentle, Colon Cleanse Guidelines
EASE IN
For 3-7 days, take a break from protein, fat and sweet. Eat soups, grains, and seasonal veggies.
SOUP
Warm soup relaxes the intestines. Have some every day, and include cleansing sea vegetables.
GRAINS
& VEGGIES
Emphasize whole-cooked grains (brown rice, millet, quinoa, etc.), and organically grown veggies.... especially qu_ck-cooked leafy greens and fat-dissolvers, such as kale, chinese cabbage, daikon and scallion.
(Choose proportions of grain to veggies according to your moods--see Slim Rhythms, pp. 180-181.)
EAT GENTLY
Chew everything well. De-stress your colon by avoiding most flour products and hard, dry foods (rice cakes, popcorn). For easily digested variety, have noodles, rice cream, or a slice of steamed unyeasted bread.
PROTEIN
After 3-7 days, include protein as needed for warmth and strength...aduki, lentil, garbanzo, toasted seeds.
SIMPL.IFY
Eat 2 meals, unless you're hungry for three. Reduce salt and spices. Avoid mucus-forming foods: nuts, oil, tofu, and dairy foods. Season with a little ginger, garlic, umeboshi, caraway seeds, fennel, dill or thyme.
TEA
JUICE & FRUIT
Drink spring water and mild teas (clover, nettles, twig, roasted b_ey, etc.). For treats enjoy local fruit, apple or vegetable juice, or Mellow Jello.
RENEW FLORA
To renew intestinal flora, have small amounts of miso or tamari in soup, and a little daikon pickle or sauerkraut after supper. (If, however, these cause candida flare-up, s_itch to non-fat yogurt, acidophilous or megadophil_us).
KEEP IT MOVING
Walk daily (or dance and stretch!). movement stimulates colon action.
Gentle, rhythmic
To increase circulation and expel toxins, apply ginger compress on belly 2-4 times a week (see p. 198).
For the most thorough cleanse, continue to eat simply for several week_, while taking intestinal herbs and psyllium husks, marketed by Holistic Horizons. (For details on these herbal aids, see The Colon Health ,Handbook, by Robert Gray).
To view the missing page/chart
Cleansing With The Seasons that includes 5 organ systems, the good season to cleanse for each organ system, foods that stress those organs, and each organ system's most beneficial foods, plus around 150 of the most easy to prepare and cook, delicious macrobiotic recipes, and so much easy to read, and simple to understand, helpful, healthful information, see
The Self-Healing Cookbook: A Macrobiotic Primer for Healing Body, Mind and Moods With Whole Natural Foods http://69.94.78.222/Self-Healing-Cookbook.php by Kristina Turner.
Check it out!
Be Well
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