| Foods that relieve constipation should be eaten on a | | | | food biscuits, can cause constipation, especially if they |
| regular basis by anyone that has bowel impaction or | | | | are eaten alone without enough of the foods that |
| problems going to the bathroom without straining. | | | | relieve constipation also being eaten at the same meal. |
| Straining when going to the bathroom has actually | | | | This is because they contain very little fiber in them. |
| caused a heart attack in many people over the years. | | | | Any time you eat constipating type foods, you should |
| You do not have to be a victim if you just eat more of | | | | balance it out by eating foods that are high in fiber that |
| the foods that relieve constipation, and less of the | | | | I have listed above. |
| foods that cause constipation on a daily basis. A heart | | | | Pizza |
| attack is not the only health problem you can develop | | | | Pizza is another food that usually takes a long time to |
| as a result from being constipated. | | | | move through the digestive tract. Pizza is also another |
| Chronic Constipation can lead to many other health | | | | food that has almost no fiber in. Cheese and white |
| problems: | | | | bread are two of the main foods that will clog down |
| --- Bowel Impaction | | | | your digestive tract. And pizza contains both. |
| --- Re-absorption of toxins into the bloodstream | | | | How to avoid constipation: |
| --- Headaches | | | | --- Stay hydrated by drinking enough pure water, raw |
| --- Malnutrition | | | | fruit juices and raw vegetable juices. |
| --- Indigestion | | | | --- Stop or cut way down on eating refined foods. |
| --- Hemorrhoids from straining | | | | (They glue us down inside) |
| --- Varicose veins | | | | --- Eat a lot more of the foods that relieve constipation |
| --- Diverticulosis | | | | that I have listed above. |
| --- Irritability | | | | If you are constipated, then you have food that is |
| --- Bowel cancer | | | | stuck in your intestines. This food that is stuck in your |
| --- Auto immune diseases | | | | intestines starts to rot more and more the longer it is in |
| --- Abdominal pains | | | | your body. |
| --- Depression | | | | Constipation is unhealthy for the body, especially if you |
| --- Weight gain | | | | are eating toxic, artificial chemical containing foods, or |
| I know I sure don't want any of the symptoms listed | | | | foods that you are intolerant to. Many people have |
| above. If you suffer from any of the symptoms on the | | | | food allergies that they might not know about that can |
| list, then you would greatly benefit by eating more of | | | | cause many different types of symptoms. |
| the foods that are on the foods that relieve | | | | To avoid constipation, make sure that you are not |
| constipation list below, and avoid doing the things, and | | | | eating refined starches that have had the fiber |
| eating the foods that cause constipation that I have | | | | removed like white rice, pastas, breads, tortillas, and |
| also listed below. | | | | biscuits. Also when eating any type of starch, you |
| Foods that relieve constipation | | | | want the meal to have enough oil in it. Extra virgin olive |
| --- Psyllium husks | | | | or coconut oil are good clean sources of oil to use. |
| --- Ground Flax seeds | | | | The more oil in the meal the less chance of |
| --- Okra | | | | constipation. But too much oil will zap your energy. Also |
| --- Prunes | | | | you will want to eat enough fiber containing vegetables |
| --- Dates | | | | (but not fruits) with any starch-based meal. |
| --- Extra Virgin Olive Oil | | | | If you eat more raw fruit smoothies for breakfast, then |
| --- Potatoes | | | | the high water content (the pulp of the orange, grapes, |
| --- Lettuce | | | | or Grapefruit) and the fiber in pears, apples, |
| --- Onions | | | | strawberries, raspberries, cherries, and cranberries |
| --- Carrots | | | | should keep things moving and rinsed out. |
| --- Green peppers | | | | Also smoothies are blended into a liquid, which also |
| --- Apples | | | | helps to avoid constipation. Another good meal to eat |
| --- Pears | | | | to relieve constipation is to make a soup with many |
| --- Oranges | | | | neutral vegetables, add some okra (okra is kind of |
| --- Grapefruits | | | | slippery in texture) and then blend it into an emulsion |
| --- Grapes | | | | with some Extra Virgin Olive oil or Coconut oil. These |
| --- Strawberries | | | | liquid type meals rarely ever get stuck inside your |
| --- Beans | | | | digestive tract. |
| --- Other fruits and vegetables | | | | If you eat more of the foods that relieve constipation, |
| Causes of constipation | | | | and cut out the constipating ones, you will have better |
| --- Eating refined foods like white flour that contain no | | | | chances of not developing bowel impaction. If you |
| fiber. | | | | already have bowel impaction, you might be able to |
| --- Eating a lot of Cheeses | | | | slowly reverse it by eating more of the foods that |
| ----Pasta | | | | relieve constipation. |
| --- Pizza | | | | What exactly is bowel impaction? |
| --- Cookies | | | | Bowel impaction is where a mass of food gets stuck |
| --- Drinking sodas and sugary drinks | | | | inside your intestines and turns into a hard lump that |
| --- Eating a lot of Meat (meat has no fiber in it) | | | | doesn't come out. This lump of hard fecal matter then |
| --- Getting dehydrated | | | | starts to rot. Then other foods that you eat later still |
| --- Overeating nuts and seeds (soaking Raw nuts | | | | has to be eliminated eventually, so they just have to |
| overnight in water will help but they are not as tasty) | | | | go around the hard mass to get out. Your body might |
| --- Drugs or Medications | | | | then develop chronic diarrhea to try and deal with the |
| --- Improper diet | | | | situation. |
| --- Not going when you feel the urge and "holding it in" | | | | Bowel impaction can lead to the bowels becoming |
| because you are not close to a bathroom or think you | | | | enlarged, which can then put too much pressure on |
| are too busy. | | | | the veins that are near the colon that are coming from |
| Over the years we have discovered that the same | | | | various organs and muscles in the body. |
| foods that relieve constipation, are also the same | | | | Your organs need a fresh steady blood supply to |
| foods that are very healthy for you. The reason they | | | | function properly. You want all of your organs to work |
| are so healthy is that they contain vitamins, minerals, | | | | as they should if you want to stay healthy. Also high |
| phytochemicals, and they are high in fiber. Also if you | | | | blood pressure can be because you have too many |
| eat them raw (except beans and potatoes) they will | | | | of your veins being pinched off. This is how varicose |
| also contain living enzymes that aid in digestion. | | | | veins are formed. This is also how hemorrhoids are |
| Let me just go over with you a few of the worst | | | | formed. |
| foods to eat if you are trying to relieve constipation. | | | | Just think of a water hose, if you pinch of the end of it, |
| Cheese | | | | the pressure builds up and makes the hose expand. If |
| Cheeses are very clogging to your digestive track. | | | | you have high blood pressure because of veins being |
| Every time I eat cheese, or meals containing cheese, it | | | | pinched off, then your heart will have to work harder |
| feels like my stomach turns into a knot, and I usually | | | | to pump the blood through them. |
| feel clogged up with stomach pains for a few days | | | | By eating more of the foods that relieve constipation |
| until it has worked his way back out of my system. | | | | on a daily basis, you will feel better, you will become |
| However I have been on a healthy diet program for a | | | | more regular in your bowel movements, and you will |
| long time now, so my digestive track is used to | | | | not have to worry as much about developing a more |
| processing and eliminating my foods without them | | | | serious disease in the future that is caused from being |
| getting clogged up in my intestines. | | | | chronically constipated. |
| But, if you have been eating cheese and other clogging | | | | I know that eating refined foods, candy, cakes, |
| foods for a long time, you might be used to the feeling | | | | crackers, cheese, and pizzas are very tasty, but they |
| of having a clogged up digestive track, and most | | | | cause constipation in many people. It is just not worth it |
| people in the United States have been eating this way | | | | to destroy our health by eating an unhealthy diet on a |
| their whole lives so they don't know what it feels like | | | | consistent basis. Also, once you cut out all the junk, |
| to not have digestive pains of some type. | | | | and only eat healthy foods for a period of time, your |
| White bread | | | | taste buds will adapt, and the healthy foods will actually |
| Just about every sandwich, every burger on a bun, | | | | start to taste good. |
| dinner roles, cakes, cookies, pies, pizza, pasta, and fast | | | | |