Enemas Are Not a Health Practice -Roger Mason

It has been wisely said that our digestive system is the center of our health. Americans generally have weak, toxic, worn out  intestines from the food we eat and the lifestyles we lead. You will often hear so-called natural health practicioners advise irrigating your colon with water, coffee, or some solution like soapy water. Some of these quacks actually advise coffee enemas! Regular or decaf? Kona or Blue Mountain? Cream and sugar? 
 
Folks, enemas are not a natural health practice. In fact, enemas are often a sexual fixation on the anus using "healthy colons" as a rationale. Such people confuse their organs of elimination with their organs of reproduction. Your intestines are self cleaning and do not need to be "irrigated". The fiber in your food naturally cleans your digestive system every day. Americans are notoriously fiber deficient. 

The proponents of this will tell you that there are five to twenty pounds of toxic, mummified, caked-up, rotting, blackened, undigested fecal matter caught up in your intestines that will not come out except by enemas. This is scarey, but simply not true. If you talk to coroners, who do autopsies on people of all ages, they will tell you they merely find partially digested food in the upper digestive tract and normal fresh fecal matter in the lower tract. Coroners will consistently tell you they never find "impacted matter" in the large or small intestine. This is real world proof the whole enema story is ridiculous. Some proponents even suggest extended colonics which are hour long enemas where the colon is flushed up to thirty times.  
 
Yes, our intestines are generally in bad shape in western society, but washing them out with enemas is hardly the answer. In fact, this will wash out the friendly digestive bacteria and make them worse. Like chelation, this is the Easy Way Out, since no one is asking you to change your diet, make better food choices, stop eating double bacon cheeseburgers, quit eating from the time you get up until you go to bed, cut down on the 42% calories we get from fats, knock off the 160 plus pounds of various sugars we have no need of at all, end the swilling of coffee, sodas and alcohol, or do anything else that smacks of self growth.  
 
The first thing you can do is start eating two meals a day instead of three. Cut your fat intake down to 10 to 20%. Eat lots of good whole grains, beans, and fresh green and yellow vegetables that are easy to digest and full of fiber. Fiber is very important for intestinal health, yet Americans are very fiber deficient from their refined food diets. Fast one day a week on water from dinner to dinner. Join us at the end of every month for the Young Again International Two Day Fast (please see "Will You Fast With Me?" in the library). Take 3 billion units of a good brand of (refrigerated) acidophilus, take 750 to FOS, take one or more grams of L-glutamine every day. Cut down on the coffee, sodas, alcohol, prescription drugs, recreational drugs, and anything else that poisons your intestines. Cut them out completely if you can and you'll be blessed with great rewards of good health and a long life.  
 
Many of these same enema advocates tell you to drink a gallon or more of water a day. This will hurt your health rather than help it. Drink only when thirsty. If you aren't thirsty don't drink. You should only urinate about three times a day. If you are urinating more than this you are drinking too much liquid and your kidneys are weakened.  
 
Dick Gregory was a big proponent of enemas and actually said we should have an enema every day! Poor Dick should have been put in an institution for his own good. This is the same man who drank his own urine ("urine therapy") as a health practice. No, I didn't make this up, and it is a matter of record. He is also the same moron who sold the ridiculous and overpriced Bahamian Diet supplement to the naive, gullible and unsuspecting. He was anything but an example of good health and an embarassment to black people. He is currently dying of cancer. How's that for a poster boy? 
 
Enemas are not a health practice. There is no impacted fecal matter in your colon. Enemas can remove the health digestive bacteria from your intestines. Don't rationalize this as a health practice. A healthy diet based on whole grains, beans and legumes, and green and yellow vegetables is the key to good health, not washing out your colon. The whole enema theory is ridiculous and scientifically disproven.