ARTICLES ON HEALTH AND BEAUTY - CONSTIPATION AND WEIGHT GAIN
By Donovan Baldwin
Many people who want to sell their particular "health products" will often use just about any
scare tactic to promote their product or plan. Often,
however, the "information" that they use to frighten people into buying
their product is misleading, incomplete, or just plain false.
I cannot even always completely hold the advertiser or salesperson at
fault, at least not completely, as they often are not aware of the
facts themselves and are merely parroting the words they saw on the
label, read in the promotional material, or heard an announcer or
"spokesperson" use.
One common area where this sort of thing crops up is in the the area of
weight loss, and one common link which is used to sway people towards
certain products is an apparent link between constipation and weight
gain.
Now, when you begin to see cause and effect links between things, you
have to be very careful as what seems "apparent" is not always the
fact. For example, years ago, a company did a series of tests
to prove that their fuel economy improvement pill worked.
Simply, they had drivers drive cars over a given route/track without
and then with the fuel pill. When the drivers were driving
with the pill having been added to the tank, they got significantly
better gas mileage!
However, the test was challenged when it was learned that the drivers
knew that they either had fuel treated with the pill or not.
When the test was redone without telling the drivers whether or not the
fuel had been treated with the pill, there was no significant
difference between the two outcomes.
The interesting point is, that when the drivers were TOLD they had cars
whose fuel had been treated with the pill, THEY STILL GOT BETTER GAS
MILEAGE!
When the drivers knew that they were "supposed" to be getting better
gas mileage...they did. They unconsciously adopted driving
habits which produced the anticipated outcome.
Now, I am not implying that if constipation and weight gain coexist
that the sufferer is producing some sort of expected outcome.
However, it cannot be deduced that simply because the two do coexist
that one is the immediate cause of the other or that changing one will
automatically change the other.
Many will have you believe that constipation and weight gain are linked
BECAUSE constipation CAUSES weight gain. Their argument often
is that more food is eaten than is excreted as waste under the best of
circumstances, and therefore, if one is constipated, excess food will
be stored as waste matter in the colon.
Actually, one would be closer to the truth to take a slightly different
view and say that weight gain CAUSES CONSTIPATION.
Now, I am NOT saying that, but there definitely IS A LINK between
constipation and weight gain!
The link is not that one causes the other, but is a result of the
simple fact that lifestyle choices, coupled with inherited genetic
predispositions can create both situations in the body at the same
time. Several important factors in weight management are
regular exercise, proper diet (i.e. nutrition...not doing without food,
but eating a diet rich in fiber and other nutrients), hydration
(drinking water), and proper rest. It is not a coincidence
that these are also the same most important factors in preventing
constipation.
Constipation and weight gain do not always go hand in hand.
Constipation can be the result of several different factors.
It can be caused temporarily by certain illnesses and certain
medications, for example. Not everyone who is overweight also
suffers from constipation.
The simplest way to combat constipation AND weight gain is to eat
properly, get regular moderate exercise
(walking is great), drink lots of water, and get eight hours of sleep a
night.
Many things can be linked with constipation, or vice-versa, such as
stress and constipation, but in most cases, the same remedy for
constipation that I have mentioned also are good for the other
condition as well. Exercise relieves stress, for example.
Now, what about that stuff about waste matter in the colon and the
whole colon-cleansing thing?
I'm not going to say that cleansing your colon occasionally won't make
you feel any better. It just might! However, other
than what you could easily move with some fresh fruits and vegetables
and a brisk walk (and a few glasses of water), there is not any huge
mass of waste matter causing to you to be overweight or unhealthy.
If you want to do the occasional colon cleanse, there are relatively
safe colon
health products, such as Bowtrol
Colon Cleanse, which is anall natural herbal colon cleansing treatment. Otherwise,
just live a healthy lifestyle as we have talked about, and constipation
and weight gain should not be much of a problem.
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Did you know that nearly 11
million of us have a hypo-active thyroid? And that Hypothyroidism is
linked to obesity and high cholesterol? Fortunately there’s
help...Hypothyroidism, also called under-active thyroid, is a condition
in which the thyroid gland doesn't produce enough thyroid hormone to
regulate the needs of the body. Even though it’s linked to
many of our modern day ills, many of us are unaware that our thyroid
may be the culprit.
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Donovan
Baldwin is a freelance SEO copywriter residing in the Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas area,
and a University of West Florida alumnus.; He is a past member of
Mensa and is retired from the U. S. Army after 21 years of
service. In his career, he has held many managerial and supervisory
positions. However, his main pleasures have long been
writing, nature, health, and fitness. In the last few years, he has
been able to combine these pleasures by writing poetry and articles on
subjects such as health, fitness, weight lifting, yoga, weight loss,
the environment, global warming, happiness, self improvement, and
life. His blog on senior health and fitness can be
found at Fitness-After-40.blogspot.com.
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