Facts About Using Laxatives for Weight Loss
With the facts that obesity is heading toward epidemic proportions, setting a goal of losing weight is a good idea. The idea of taking laxatives as a means of shedding pound, however, is just plain ridiculous.
The process of digestion starts in the mouth, proceeding through more than 20 feet of intestines and organs into the stomach, after which it is processed by the small intestine. By the time the remainder of your food reaches the large intestine, it is entirely waste material.
The large intestine is alive with a wide variety of bacteria, which are not dangerous to the health if they stay confined to the intestine. The function of these bacteria is to help process the waste into smaller pieces in order that the body can safely and easily shed it.
Also noteworthy is the fact that with denser material in the lover intestines come a balance with water. As that balance can sometimes be messed up, you may perhaps find yourself either loose or hard stool. Constipation results when the balance leans too far toward the dry and diarrhea results when the balance leads toward too much water.
When laxatives are used the goal is to pull water into that bowel are from the tissues to soften the stool and make it possible for it to be eliminated easily. Since there is never any significant weight from whatever waste material is in the large intestine, ingesting laxatives to help with weight loss won’t ever work. The large intestine rarely hold more than five pounds of waste and water at any time.
Even if one is successful in losing weight by taking laxatives, the fact is that this weight will return as soon as any water or food is drunk or eaten. To effectively loose a significant number of pounds and keep them off, you must modify your nutrition and begin a cardiovascular/aerobics type workout.
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