Stop Constipation With Fiber The Natural Way

There are many ways to stop constipation and using fiber is one of them. By eating more fiber you can increase the frequency of your bowel movements and slowly stop constipation. So what kind of fiber do you need to eat? Fiber from raw vegetable and fruits is better for you than fiber from grains. Why? Grains are live food before they are cooked. Cooking kills their enzymes and they become dead food.

Raw vegetables and fruits are live foods with enzymes, minerals, vitamins, and many antioxidants that are charged electrically. They have a magnetic energy that is absorbed by your DNA. So eat more raw fruits and vegetables and get the fiber you really need to stop constipation.

And there is one more thing, you need to add when you eat fiber foods. Drink water. If you don’t get drink enough water during the day, your body will take the water out of your fecal matter in the colon and make your stools hard. When they are hard, they are difficult to move through the colon. Drink a minimum of 3 glasses a day of pure water. The actual amount of water that you need is not 8-10 glasses a day like is promoted by the health industry. You need to decide how much water to drink based on how thirsty you get.

Here’s how to do your “fiber work.” You need to increase your fiber intake to around 30 – 45 mg or more. Yes this is a lot. In the past, I recommended 35mg of fiber, but this is an average. You want to have more than the average amount, when you have constipation.

Fiber does much more in your colon than make you make you regular, it:

” combines with toxins and moves them out in your stools

” combines with heavy metal and moves them out in your stools

” combines with cholesterol and bile and prevents them from being reabsorbed into your blood stream.

” helps to prevent colon cancer and other colon diseases.

” keeps your colon walls strong and healthy by not allowing toxins to accumulate there.

” cleans the colon walls and pulls toxins out of colon pockets and holes.

Here are some high fiber foods. Add them to your eating list so that you can become regular. The following foods provide 3 gm of fiber. Add a variety of these foods to your daily diet and get the benefits of a high fiber diet. Start eating these them little by little to get use to eating excess fiber. At first when you increase your fiber intake, you may experience more stomach gas.

* 1/3 cup prunes

* 2 slices of whole wheat bread

* 1/2 cup cooked winter squash

* 1/2 cup fresh cooked green peas

* 1/2 cup cooked kidney beans, or pinto beans, or cowpeas

* 1 cup of cooked barley, 1 1/2 cup of brown rice, 1 cup of millet

* 3 corn tortillas

* 1/6 cup 100% bran, 1/2 cup cream of wheat

* 1 cup applesauce, 1 cup of apple slices, 1/2 cup of bananas, 1/2 cup figs
* 1 cup fruit salad, 1 cup of prune juice, 1 ounce of raisins

* 1/2 avocado

* 1 cup blueberries, 3/4 cup of cranberries

* 1/3 cup guava, 1 kiwifruit, 1/2 of a mango, 2 nectarines, 1/3 papaya

* 1 orange, 1 cup peach slices, 1 cup pears slices, 1/2 persimmon

* 1 1/2 cup pineapple, 1 cup strawberries

* 1/2 cup raisins, 3/4 cup coconut

* 1/2 cup rhubarb, 1/3 cup of artichoke hearts

* 1.2 ounces of almonds, 1/2 ounce sesame seeds, 1/3 cup of sunflower seeds

* 1/4 cup of baby lima beans, 1/7 cup of black beans, 1 cup green beans

* 1/4 cup of kidney, pinto, white or navy beans, 1/3 cup of lentils

* 1/2 cup broccoli, 1/2 cup Brussels sprouts, 1 cup cabbage

* 2 carrots, 1/2 cup of carrot juice

* 1 cup cauliflower, 5 stalks of celery

* 1 cup of chard, 1 cup of mustard greens

* 1 ear of corn

* 1/2 cup of mixed vegetables

* 1/2 cup of olives

* 1/2 baked potato, 1 baked sweet potato, 1 cup yams

* 1 cup tomato juice, 1 cup vegetable juice

When your stools start to float in the toilet bowl, you know you have processed enough high fiber foods. So if your stools sink in water then you need more fiber. If you eat excess fiber your stools may sink, but I doubt any of you fall in this category. To stop constipation eat more fiber and drink a little bit more water.

Our diet should consist of high fiber foods. Most of us eat very little high fiber foods and this leads to mild or chronic constipation. Many other illnesses also come from chronic constipation. Many doctors don’t know how to deal with constipation like a nutritionist does. So, learn what foods provide you with the fiber you need to make your stools float and to protect you from constipation.

To get more tips and information on how to stop constipation go to: Natural Remedies to Stop Constipation