Is Significant Weight Loss Possible Via Colon Cleansing?

     Colon cleansing is a favored practice targeted at promoting weight loss and over all better health. There are a number of major health benefits which colon cleansing can provide, mostly as the procedure eliminates poisons, toxins, impurities and fecal plaque from the intestinal tract and digestive system.

The diet that the majority of people eat causes a lot of unnatural stress to our intestines. Processed foods and junk foods (just to name a few) are particularly hard on the intestines and these foods will often end up only partly digested and leave residues in the viscera. This unhealthy residue builds up over time and after a period of many years begins to have a negative result on the entire digestive process. When this buildup is removed via a natural colon cleaning process, digestive function is improved and restored and often a little weight is lost through removing pounds (sometimes many pounds ) of these unsightly and unhealthy waste products that have built up in the digestive tract.

Colon cleansing can be done in a variety of different ways. As with any kind of health related practice, natural is not the only way to gobut the preferred way. One simple and natural way to start your colon cleansing program is to drink room temperature water; at this temperature, water will help to cleanse the bowel and even has some natural obesity-fighting properties. This is one of the reasons that you will seldom see people from the Orient consume cold beverages with their meals.

You should also ensure that you get lots of fiber in your diet. Not only does fiber help to cleanse your colon, but fiber ties to fat molecules and carries them out of your body, leading to weight loss in several cases as the fat is naturally eliminated from your system without being digested.

There are a variety of herbs which also have colon cleansing properties. A couple of the more well-known herbs include Indian gooseberry and Hoodia Gordonii. Hoodia is an appetite suppressant as well as a colon cleanser, so it's a welcome boost to a colon cleansing program or a weight loss program.

Fasting can help to cleanse the colon and when done in moderation can also aid in weight loss. The best types of fasts are raw plant fasts or fruit juice fasts. Either of these fasts help to cleanse the bowel and promote weight loss naturally.

Copyright (c) 2009 Fred Andrews

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