Re: Re: Intestinal formula, cleansing ...

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Hi Rita,

You know, I suffered with intestinal stuff for years. Every time I was

pregnant, I had terrible cramps, and the doctors would give me Donnagel

& Codeine, or paragoric to deal with it. I had a friend who worked on

eating well, and I used to just say, it isn't worth it. But over the

years, as I see the negative effects of medical treatments and drugs,

and as I watched both of my parents, who were major medicine people, die

VERY slowly (eight years) one of arthritis with accompanying steroids,

and the other of cancer with accompanying neuropathy and chemotherapy, I

have come to the following conclusion. The number of years I live is not

as important to me as the ability to live a quality life. And, to me, a

quality life is not one of struggling with all kinds of symptoms and

taking multiple types of drugs, which may somewhat alleviate, but which

don't bring real health. I am the adviser to a state group of blind &

visually impaired kids. We do all kinds of fun things throughout the

year including sledding, skiing, white water rafting, horseback riding,

Alpine slide (which is taking a slide in a cement track down the side of

a mountain), biking, and much more. And I want to have as much fun doing

those things as the kids do. Mentally, I am not a sickly old lady, and

so I don't want to a sickly old lady physically.

I have tried prune juice, and it works for that day. But my body hasn't

felt better, except for that one bm. I desire a real fix, and so, for

me, that is to change my diet and clean out my intestines so that I can

go every day, several times a day, and have my intestines do it without

outside help.

I believe that there are plants on the earth to heal our physical

problems, but what can one or ten herbs do against a diet of the kind we

all eat today.

I think that it is okay to eat a little meat. According to Dr. Colin

, whom I was lucky enough to hear speak last summer, a person

can eat up to 10% protein from animal sources and still maintain good

health. He admitted that he finds animal proteins to be very appealing,

and that it is difficult to calculate an accurate 10% (which is a very

small amount). And so he eats vegetarian foods only.

We have also been taught all our lives, in health classes, that frest

fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than cooked. So, for right

now, I am eating only fresh. The time MAY come when I feel able to eat

some cooked foods, and even some animal protein. But right now, while I

am healing, I am trying to do the best things I possibly for my body.

After all, I have spent my whole life abusing it. <BG>

TerriLynne

Rita wrote:

You are in the same boat I am. I have always had constipation problems

for years as far as I can remember,I use to eat prunes 5-6 on Mondays

with a full glass of milk and that did the trick, I had to go and

sometimes barely made it to the bathroom i nearly blow our of me and

that satisfactory feeling of success! And I had enough roughage like

spinach and lots of carrots follwed by a good lunch, anything and

everything even hot chilli etc but my days of carefree ended this last

DeDec when I had my first attack of diverticulitis. and a pain in my

left side that never leaves anymore completely. Yes it goes away if I

cut down on my lunch and a very small snack at night. I had a

colonoscopy and it turn out that my colon " Wasn,t that bad to merit

surgery to resection the colon as my friend went through for 4 years of

hell before she just couldn,t stand the pain anymore, now she can eat

you under the table! I wanted that too but the Doc said he would do a

Cat scan first before considering my pain. well today I got the results

back and it was normal. So surgery is out unless I get

worse...infections and antibiotics etc. So I put myself on a fber diet

with All Bran, a table spoon with a half cup of Post brand cereal and

my fav cup of blanched spinach with bannana cut into the cereal. than

for lunch a fairly substantial lunch of 4 Oz of meat and bread with

some type of veggies or squash. and a light snack at night. The pain

melts away during the first morning BM. with the high fiber breakfast.

and today I had three BM , but some days it still wants to be stingy

with the movement and the pain edges back until I move my bowels again.

I suspect I will be like this from now on. . working with my condition

of poor BM. and was told to have metamucil every day now from my

uroligist or colon specialist. So its a trade-off for keeping my

equipment *intack* verses going under the knife. Sometimes I get

depressed too, but than my integrity of whats around the *corner* of

the next good BM keeps my spirits up! It helps to just not think about

it and let *Nature* follow its course to *Adjusting*

Rita