What I prefer to as bad food is not only the ordinary variety of spoiled food due to contamination, insufficient refrigeration or lack of care in sealing, but food which is insufficiently or improperly cooked. If mankind would like to claim credit for intelligence, I think his most convincing exhibit to substantiate this claim would [...]
Archive for March, 2010
How Did I Ever Get Colitis Disease
“What I’d like to know is how did I ever get colitis disease?” This is the favorite lament of colitis disease patients. Many think that the ailment is invariably infectious in nature. The fact of the matter is quite the contrary. The majority of cases are not due to infection, as there are many reasons [...]
How to Tell a Case of Colitis Disease
It is easy to tell a victim of colitis disease, but it is hard to tell him very much! There are few ailments in which the patient is so willing to dispute your diagnosis. “But Doctor,” says one for instance, “how can I have colitis disease? Actually I am constipated.” Or still another will ask: [...]
Your Intestinal Tract – The Inside Scope
In order to come to a conclusion or form a judgment with respect to anything in life, including your intestinal tract, it is necessary to have a yardstick of measurement as a basis for comparison. It is for this reason I feel that when I suggest that you attempt an understanding of disordered intestinal function, [...]
Constipation-Colitis-Cancer Flagrantly Overlooked
One need only glance at the advertising pages of popular periodicals to realize that constipation is a universal complaint. It is spoken of as a distinct disorder. The medical profession itself is apt to consider it a separate ailment and treat it accordingly. For the relief of constipation, countless laxatives are prescribed or taken without [...]
The Diarrhea-Colitis-Cancer Connection
Diarrhea in the vocabulary of the average person means just one thing, colitis. Certainly it is better to hold this view than to consider it as a disease by itself. Strangely enough the medical profession itself has been guilty of this very error. Error it is, since diarrhea is a symptom and not a disease. [...]
Symptoms of Colitis – A Departure from Normal
Symptoms, the presence of colitis is evidenced by certain disturbances of sensation and function which vary greatly in degree depending, of course, upon the intensity of the irritation of the mucous membrane of the colon. The presence of gas, a certain sense of bloating and a tendency toward constipation are some of the earliest symptoms [...]
Two Nervous Systems One Food Digestion Canal
Your Table of Contents Part 4 - Two Nervous Systems One Food Digestion System We now come to that part of the tube where evidence of constipation first assumes form. In the large bowel practically no digestion occurs, and normally most of the absorption of foodstuffs has already occurred in the small intestine. I say [...]
Sphincter in Food Digestion
Your Table of Contents Part 3 - Sphincter in Food Digestion The bile formed by the liver passes down the bile duct, encounters the closed valve, and is thus prevented at the moment from passing into the intestine. It backs up into what is known as the gall bladder. However, the moment the acid content [...]
Food Digestion Control Valves
Your Table of Contents Part 2 - Food Digestion Control Valves Whatever you eat and drink is passed down along the food digestion canal by a sort of a “milking” process, known technically as peristalsis. It is accomplished by contractions of the digestive tube above the mass of food and simultaneous relaxations of that part [...]
