High Fiber Food is Both a Cure and Prevention for Slow Digestion

by Laura Koch

Slow digestion and elimination is a common indicator of poor colon health . Eating many acid-forming foods such as cheese, sugar foods, red meats, salty foods, refined-flour bread, and fried foods will rob your body of critical electrolytes. These acid-forming foods have very little fiber.

High roughage food is both a cure and prevention for waste elimination. Quality roughage will move through your digestive system easily and quickly. On the other hand, a low residue diet - white foods - will cause a "gluey state" (making a paste with flour and water = glue). Your intestinal contractions slow and cannot work efficiently.

Much of what you eat today is low in roughage and causes very slow processing of food and slow elimination. The bowel is not able to work efficiently without high quantities of good roughage. Changing from low residue, low fiber food gently and gradually will support your digestive system very quickly. Gradual change is much better than a sudden change - and is recommended - especially when the colon is inflamed.