One of the common things associated with colon cleansing is the regularity of bowel movements and frankly diarrhea in some cases because it is all coming out. Keep in mind, it’s also often actually black, which is unpleasant at the very least. But you should keep something in general in mind. It also tends to be black. Realistically speaking, most of the time when you have diarrhea, it’s because something is wrong or something in your diet is not right, or you’re taking a fat blocker. Take your pick of reasons why. Even with little fat, a fat blocker seems to always give me that basic problem. It’s interesting, a little bit gross, but interesting. On the other hand, I’m never more regular than when I eat McDonalds on a regular basis. I also feel weighed down, have acne, and all the other things that are opposite of what should come with a colon cleanse. But if you were just going off of regularity, McDonalds might seem like the perfect answer. So in short, if taking a colon cleanser, you may pee a lot, and that may mean they have quite a few diuretics. Just look for all the signs rather than just one.
All The Signs
August 5th, 2009Raw Food Diet
July 29th, 2009There are some who say that a raw diet is the best thing for you. You only eat raw foods that are plants. Keep in mind, you don’t eat raw meat, that could be quite detrimental. But there are some who have laid off burger and other junk food for the most part. These people take it to a whole nother extreme, giving you the idea of cutting out all junk food all together, all meats, all processed foods, nothing but raw fruits and vegetables. There are some people who have literally been doing it for years and say their bodies are cleansed, pure, and couldn’t handle fattier foods again. It makes sense. Over years of time, your body gets used to not dealing with things like that and then it adjusts accordingly. Even when you go vegetarian for an extended period of time, if you start eating meat again, your body will naturally want to expel it, not be used to it, and not really want to deal with it. You will have to take some time to slowly implement it back into your diet if that’s what you want to do. But these people claim that their bodies are so cleansed of all processed foods and other issues that if they were to try to go back, it would literally be impossible. I would be skeptical for various reasons.
Drop Soda
July 15th, 2009If you want to detoxify, the first thing to drop is soda. Soda slows down your ability to effectively exercise and your endurance levels anyway. But it also creates toxic buildup as well as the buildup of excess sugars. All these things combined don’t help. In addition, you get unhealthy levels of caffeine in combination with things that are already unhealthy and you get the excess calories. If you are drinking the diet drinks, you are getting artificial sweeteners, which are actually worse for you than the regular sugars, something that most wouldn’t guess or realize to say the least. But it’s the simple truth. However, if you simultaneously focus on healthy foods that are also cleansing such as celery, seaweed, scallops, hemp seeds, lentils, and cherries, you will achieve significantly greater benefits. However, the first step is to drop processed sugars, a classic example being soda. If you get rid of these elements from your diet, you will see an immediate difference. With soda, you could easily lose more weight without changing anything else in your diet and exercise plan. In addition, you could gain higher energy to work out so that you will lose more weight, you won’t have those particular toxins building up in your system, and you can achieve various other things.
Family
July 10th, 2009How much time do we spend with our families outside of work? Do we let our mp3’s, the internet, or the TV rule our time at home? Do you know what your child is learning at school, or what activities he or she is in? Some families I know that have teenagers that lock himself or herself up in his or her room, comes down for dinner, and then goes back up again. Do you have any idea what he or she is doing up there?
How about trying this? Don’t use any electronics for a week. If internet is necessary, go to the library as a family. See what happens at the end of the week. Your family is very important. You will always be stuck with them, so why not make the best out of the time you have with them? Yes, you may have years and years and years, but do you realize how quickly time flies? My own parents still tell me, “Aw, I remember you doing this as a baby. It was just like yesterday. Now look at you now.” I know of people who regret not making the most out of the time he or she had with their family and thus weakening bonds with them. We should not let the same happen to us. If it has happened to us, find ways to strengthen that bond again, or make sure it does not happen to our own family.
Smoking
July 8th, 2009Cigarettes, to some, are a way of releasing stress. To others, it is a nasty substance that will not only cause the smoker cancer, but to everyone around him or her. Cigarettes contain over four thousand chemicals, some of which or toxic and carcinogenic. Nicotine, a substance in a cigarette, is actually a drug. Nicotine (used as herbicide and insecticide) is what gets people addicted to smoking. Other harmful substances are lead, mercury, acetone (what is in nail polish remover), hydrogen cyanide (cyanide, when swallowed, is poisonous), tar, arsenic (lethal poison), methanol (used in rocket fuel), cyanhydric acid (was used in gas chambers), and many others.
It’s kind of disgusting to know that smokers are taking in all these different chemicals that harm them. Cigarettes should be banned, like drugs are. Cigarettes do nothing but harm the body. They have the same effects as drugs: it’s a stimulant, make you look bad, and addictive. Smokers are also doing harm to those around them, a.k.a secondhand smokers. It has been found that about 3000 nonsmokers die every year from lung cancer caused by secondhand smoke. It is very harmful to children. Secondhand smoke causes children to get health problems such as asthma, and middle ear and sinus infections.
Smoking does a lot more bad than it does good. It should be illegal.
Self-discipline
July 6th, 2009Have you ever started something, but then stopped because something more interesting came your way? Did you ever say, “I’ll finish it later, I don’t want to do it right now?” What’s wrong with this picture? Answer: lack of self- discipline. Self- discipline is a very hard skill to master. It takes time and effort. However, everyone can attain it through practice.
Don’t get distracted when performing a task or duty. Stay on task. This is basically self- discipline. It doesn’t matter what your friend said about so and so, it doesn’t matter that a hot guy is talking to you over chat. Ignore these temptations. What is important is finishing the task or duty, then one can do whatever he or she wants. Then one doesn’t have the feeling of being guilty of not staying on task the whole time he or she had to. Tending to trifling distractions is not worth feeling the guilt that comes while one is working. The trifling distracts will always be there, and can be spent on whatever amount of time. However, a task is only given a certain amount of time. If one does not have self-discipline, he or she will end up wasting his or her time, along with others’ times.
Genetically Modified Organisms
July 3rd, 2009There are many things to buy in a grocery store. However, most of the items on the shelves have genetically modified organisms. The human body is not meant to take in anything that is genetically modified. The human body is organic, and anything organic is best for the human body. Back with the items in the grocery stores, most of the items that have genetically modified organisms do not say so. I believe that there should be a label on everything that has genetically modified organisms.
What exactly are genetically modified organisms? Genetically modified organisms are plants or animals which have had foreign genes injected into them. These foreign genes make the plants or animals more favorable. However, not enough research has been done to determine what the side effects of genetically modified organisms cause. Some seeds from genetically modified plants may be carried off into the wind and be combined with wild plants. The genetically modified seed may ultimately dominate the whole wild crop, causing all offspring to be genetically modified, and thus reducing genetic variation.
Genetically modified organisms may ultimately change us. Who knows, maybe because of genetically modified organisms, our children will fly one day, or just be mutant freaks?
Cell Phone Future
July 1st, 2009As you walk down the street, you can see in everyone’s hand, pocket, or purse, a cell phone. Teenagers are constantly texting on the cell phones, women chattering away to their friends, and men calling their buddies. Cell Phones have become a natural part of our everyday lives. We use them to communicate with each other every day. At the local high school, you can see students gushing over the latest model, wishing they could have it in their hands. There are always commercials about sales and promotions about the latest cell phone or older cell phones.
I wouldn’t be surprised if one day, computers and laptops will be out of use and the cell phone will be the new computer or laptop. We already use them to go on the internet, we use them for email, storing photos, and more. We can already write notes and texts, so why not be able to type up a report. I believe that later in the future, someone will make a way to connect a cell phone to a printer using an application such as Bluetooth and just print things from the cell phone. It would save a lot more money for everyone and maybe even be easier. Who knows what the future will hold for us?
Colon Cleanse
June 30th, 2009There are many ways to do a colon cleanse. One does not always need a colon cleanser. I’ve heard of water colon cleanse, lemonade colon cleanse, fruit colon cleanse, and vegetable colon cleanse. With these types of cleanses, everything consumed is natural and healthy. One does not have to put themselves through the trouble of researching colon cleansers when going through a colon cleanse, and it is easier too. There is also a type of colon cleanse called colonics. What happens during colonics is a tube is put through the rectum, and then purified water with minerals is flushed through the colon, thus cleansing the colon. This process is repeated several times to ensure a full colon cleanse.
There are many results that come with a colon cleanse. However, because everyone is different, not everyone will have the same result. Besides the colon being detoxified, some possible results may be weight loss, more energy, and more. Having a colon cleanse done is a good idea. No one wants toxins floating around in their body, harming themselves. Performing a colon cleanse will fix that. There are minimal risks found with doing a colon cleanse. So with all the benefits, there is no harm in having a colon cleanse done.
Caffeine
June 25th, 2009Caffeine is one of the most controversial topics I know of. There are so many people addicted to it, and swear it doesn’t affect them. I talk to people every day who are either soda drinkers or coffee drinkers who have trouble sleeping, get frequent headaches, and are extremely irritable. Yet they swear it is not the caffeine. Studies have linked caffeine with all of these symptoms. Most over the counter headache medicine is loaded with caffeine because it supposedly helps relieve headache symptoms, but in all reality it is contributing to problems. It is not a coincidence to find out that the ones drinking large amounts of cola, coffee and other heavily caffeinated drinks are also popping headache pills all day long too. Then they complain about not being able to sleep. Of course caffeine is not the only factor in these scenarios, but it is a big part of it. I’m not saying that caffeine is the devil, or that we should avoid it like the plague, but I do think that we all consume way too much of it. Also there is a small percent of the population that actually benefits from caffeine when they get a migraine, but it is a very small percent. The rest of them that claim it relieves there headaches are the ones that are addicted to it.