I have been seeing a lot of infomercials about Colon Cleansing products over the past few months; it makes me wonder exactly how many people really believe that you need to completely empty your intestines every day to be healthy? From all the commercials I see, they are either extremely successful selling their product, or are desperate!
My understanding is that it is normal for your intestines to have some solids in them all of the time; it is just part of nature. I can’t imagine using any kind of product on a regular basis to keep my intestines empty all the time! I think that is just carrying things too far! I don’t think it can possibly be as healthy as the infomercials are claiming it is!
There have been times when I need a laxative, I’ll admit that. But on the other hand, my wife has irritable bowel syndrome and she already is in the bathroom more than she wants to be; I think a colon cleansing regimen would kill her!
My in-laws have recently joined a health program where they are trying to eat only vegetables, and they have been talking to us about how important their program thinks colon cleansing is. I still think they are a little bit nuts!
I have never seen so many types of cereal lined up on the shelf in my entire life! I know there is a lot of cereal in the store when you walk down the aisles, but I never thought much about it. Then I went to work in a grocery store (another story.) One of my jobs was to stock the cereal aisle. I never realized they categorize the cereal from baby to adolescent to adult! From sugar to half sugar to no sugar! From fiber to no fiber to half fiber to fruit and fiber! It’s just crazy! I think there is approximately eighty different kinds of cereal on the two rows that I stock every week, and we sell it all! I have yet to not put the same kind of cereal on the shelf every week and wonder how so many people can buy so many kinds of cereal! It’s just crazy!
