Bad judgment certainly comes in for its share of blame for getting colitis disease. Anyone who eats leftover dishes in a public eating house is showing bad judgment and will undoubtedly pay for it. When eating out, it is a wise rule never to eat anything but a primary dish, roast beef but not roast beef hash, roast chicken but not chicken croquettes, steak but not “hamburgers.” In the trade, these are known as “sweep up the kitchen.” Certainly a dry crust of bread and a glass of water would be better food than this refuse!
Another way in which bad judgment exhibits itself is the readiness with which many people follow food fads. Prevalent is the liquefying of raw carrots, raw celery and many other foods. These are then drunk as a part of a meal. The lack of cooking exposes the person to the dangers of micro-organisms mentioned in the post Bad Luck. The lack of bulk deprives the food digestion canal of the exercise which it normally takes in contracting on food masses in the pushing of them along the intestinal tract.
What has been said about these liquefied vegetables may also be said with equal justice about the fruit juices with this additional point added. Tomato juice is definitely poison to some people. To them it is highly irritating to the colon. The same may be said of orange juice.
Of course, if one were to believe the advertisers your sole hope of salvation and Vitamin C lies in that daily guzzle of orange juice or tomato juice. Don’t believe it, because it is not true. You can get plenty of Vitamin C in other foods even in cooked foods. Remember these advertisements cost money. In order to pay for the advertisements, products must be sold. The chief concern of the advertiser is in his sales not in your health. He is selfish, that is his privilege. You have the same privilege and remember the law, the often overlooked law, which is the first rule of Nature, the law of self preservation.
Now that we now know some factors of why and how someone actually gets colitis disease lets jump over to the category of colitis causes, to be specific, the foregoing remarks have perhaps been lacking in academic conciseness. To please those who prefer to have their facts in stacks, like buckwheat cakes, and at the risk of being repetitious, the following category – colitis causes, will paint a technical picture of what the causative factors are in the production of colitis.
