by Gwynn Alcorn

Created on: April 16, 2008

The Art of Elimination

Who would have ever thought of the process of daily elimination as an art?

Certainly not I. In fact, I was so revolted by the procedure of elimination that even as a child I tried my best not have bowel movements. I succeeded, spending a lifetime being constipated, all because my mind was constipated about the subject of elimination.

Well, no more. Now I even give seminars about the art of elimination to large audiences. I am still quite fastidious about my language while discussing the digestive system, but other than that, I get right down to the basics.

Because proper elimination is the corner stone of our health.

If we do not have healthy bowel movements two or three times a day, we are like the tunnel that had three trains go into it, and only one train came out. THERE IS A WRECK IN THE TUNNEL. And that wreck in our intestines is the starting point for all illness.

To quote Dr. Bernard Jensen from his book Tissue Cleansing Through Bowel Management, "90% of all illness starts in the bowel."

To be healthy, we have to make sure our whole being that is body, mind and spirit is fed. For this article, we will just deal with the body. To keep the body healthy, we need nutritious food, pure water and lots of fiber to operate our digestive system and obtain life-giving nutrients.

Less than two ounces of the many pounds of food we eat each day is all the required nutrition to feed our body. The remainder is waste that must be excreted. If we eat three meals a day, we must move our bowels three times a day.

The only way we can have bowel movements that clean our intestines thoroughly is by drinking a minimum of two quarts of pure water daily and eating a great deal of fiber every day. The U.S. Surgeon General recommends 35 grams of fiber per day, and various health gurus recommend 50 grams of fiber daily. In actuality, the average North American diet comprises less than 10 grams of fiber daily.

In Africa, where the population eats a great deal of fiber, little meat and NO processed food, bowel cancer is unknown. The peristaltic action of the bowel needs the roughage to move along the meat and dairy products that have absolutely no fiber content. The bowel also needs lots of water to wash all that food through the 30-foot digestive tract that starts at our mouth and ends at our bottom.

When fiber scrubs the colon clean, the body can absorb the nutrients from the food eaten. But when the colon is not clean, there is a build up of old dried fecal matter

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