How to Cure Constipation Naturally

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Lauren Roy from Sugar Hollow Farm in Phillipston, Mass. By the age of fifty, most people should go and have a colonoscopy done to get a base line. It's good for your health. But I'm going to show you some things that you can use to naturally cure constipation, which is a lack of fluid in your body that makes your stools really hard. And hard to pass. The first thing you need to do is make sure you always drink plenty of water, but if you do find that you're constipated, you can add some things to your diet to make your life a little easier. One thing is ground flax, flax comes from a plant and it looks like this when it's growing and it has a little flower and in the flower pod, are seeds. And that's where we get our flax seeds. These are taken and ground, you can add them daily to your diet and that helps keep your colon nice and clean and things don't get built up. You can take the flax and add it to yogurt, you can add it to your oatmeal, you can bake with it, or if you're constipated you can take a spoonful, it doesn't really swirl - it doesn't mix up that great but mix it up, and drink it down, and that will help get things moving. Then follow that up with a change in your diet including more fiber, green leafy vegetables and tons of water. I'm Lauren Roy for Sugar Hollow Farm in Phillipston, Mass."