Cleanses

[shootingstar]

Personally, I believe that if you eat healthy things, and stay fit, your body is designed to do an admirable job of ridding itself of waste materials and toxins. Isn't that what our bowels, liver, and kidneys, etc, are for? In my mind, harsh laxative/colonic treatments are no better than douches and vomiting ....unnatural attempts at "purifying" our bodies. Something vaguely disturbing and self punishing about it. Just my opinion.

I find that if I have not exercised at all for a few consecutive days, most definitely my bowel movement is not regular.

I can't claim I'm totally processed-food free but no we don't buy tv/frozen dinners at all. Maybe onc/twice e a month I buy something from a deli or Chinese preprepared dinners (ie. barbecued pork, steamed dim sum, etc.) I guess buying frozen phyllo dough..is processed...for us to make our mushroom/escargots strudels.

And I've never enjoyed carbonated soft drinks....at all. My mother actually rationed our soft drink intake. AMong 6 cans, she divided 1 can per 2 kids. Poverty in family was a fantastic excuse (and real) for my parents to limit junk food purchases for home.

No, I don't use laxatives. I just try to have more fruit, tea and get back into exercise, not to be constipated.

Actually alot of CHinese food dishes just taste crappy / flat precooked and frozen for a few days because I do stir-fry or steam many of my savoury dishes.