How to Avoid Constipation

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Constipation can be either a really uncomfortable feeling, or a chronic condition. Chronic constipation can be caused by any number of conditions, but is most often due to a lack of dietary fiber.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

  • Fresh Fruit & Vegetables
  • Prune Juice & Prunes
  • Bran Products
  • Exercise Daily
  • Purify Water
  • Fiber
  • Fiber Max

Step1
Filtered Water Drink Six to Eight glasses of 8oz. purify water, to help clean, and soften the bowel movements.
Step2
Fruit and Vegetables Eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables to help get enough fiber in your digestive system.
Step3
Bran Cereal Have some prunes, prune juice, and bran product cereals, usually this well help the digestive system much, much better.
Step4
Exercise Daily Exercise Regularly, exercising daily, usually helps the bowel movement to loosen up evenly.
Step5
Fiber Max You will also need to take Fiber Max daily, to help you get more fiber, especially if you don't really want to do some of the steps above.
Step6
Go to the middle bottom of this page, on the Link where it says Avoid Constipation, right below Resources, and click on it.

Tips & Warnings

  • Things to Avoid
  • Extended Travel
  • Iron Supplements
  • Prescriptions Drugs
  • Sugar, Cheese, and Refined White Flour

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porkypie

porkypie said

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on 8/19/2008 A pear a day is very effective.

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on 8/3/2008 Alum - With rectum sore and bleeding; stools hard, knotty, covered with mucous; stools accumulate in rectum.

Amm-mur - Hard, crumbling stool, covered with mucous; smarting and soreness in rectum.

Anac - Sense of plug in rectum, preventing stool.

Bar-carb - Constipation of hard, knotty stools.

Bry - Large, hard stools, dry, as if burnt.

Calc - Constipation of large hard stools; for first hard, then pasty, then fluid.

Chel - Stool of small, round, black balls; constipation and diarrhoea alternate.

stingy

stingy said

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on 7/19/2008 Good advice. Also, if you take calcium for bone health add magnesium to help avoid constipation.

stingy

stingy said

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on 7/19/2008 Good advice. Also, if you take calcium for bone health add magnesium to help avoid constipation.

Hapworth

Hapworth said

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on 7/11/2008 Fiber is definitely important.

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