Do You Know Some Causes of Constipation
Most people and even doctors don't really know what causes constipation. Sometimes constipation can suddenly appear when changes in normal living habits and stressful conditions occur - flying out of your time zone, having personal confrontations at work or within the family, or a change in diet.
Changes in diet can be the cause of constipation since certain foods cause constipation. Some foods are more difficult to process in the stomach and in the colon. Lack of specific minerals, vitamins, water, or fiber in specific foods can slow fecal matter as it travels through the colon.
One major cause of constipation is the continual eating of processed foods. These foods have little nutritional value, lack fiber, lack water, and are packed with poison additives. This results in colon wall weakness and nerve action for normal peristaltic movement so that fecal matter cannot even be push out of the rectum.
Eating food with little or no fiber creates fecal matter that is mushy or hard and compacted. Mushy or compact fecal matter is hard to move along your colon. Your colon walls tire after many peristaltic movements without fecal matter moving very far. After a time, your colon walls stop trying and you end up with constipation.
Constipation is a body condition you have created by improper living choices, which you can change. It is sometimes an easy symptom to eliminate and at other time difficult to deal with. It occurs from a complex of many things. Like so many other body conditions or illnesses, it is a result of. Here is a list of causes of constipation
Absorbing too many toxins into the body
Anxiety and depression
Being bedridden
Having colitis, or spastic colon.
Having diabetes
Having diseases of the anus or rectum such as Having tumors, diverticulosis
Drinking coffee
Drinking milk
Drinking sodas
Drinking tea
Eating excess protein
Eating food that doesn't have fiber
Eating processed foods
Eating sugars
Eating to much food at one sitting
Excess exposure to organophosphate insecticides
Excess use iron supplements
Excess use of enemas
Excess use of seasonings
Excessive Calcium in the body
Fatigue
Food sensitivities
High fever - colon accumulates heat and hardens stools
Hypothyroidism, Low levels of thyroid hormone IBS
Kidney failure
Lack of good bacteria
Mineral Deficiency
Nerve disorders of your bowel
Not chewing food completely
Not drinking enough water
Not enough exercise
Older people
Overeating
Overuse of laxatives
Overdose of Vitamin D
Parasites
Poor digestion
Postponing a bowel movement
Pregnancy
Premenstrual tension
Spinal injuries - people with these injuries can have damage to the nerves that regulate bowel moments
Toxic liver
Use of prescription drugs
Various diseases
Constipation can be a symptom of the start of a disease or illness. Check the above list and slowly eliminate those habit you have that cause constipation. Start making changes in your diet, health practices, and in the supplements you take. Doing this will help you eliminate some of the constipation causes.