New Study Clears up Myths about Constipation

[metisnation]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=4&u=/nm/constipation_myths_dc

By Charnicia E. Huggins

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The idea that chronic constipation is the result of a low-fiber diet may be one of the many myths and misconceptions about the condition, according to a new review of the issue.


The same is true of the idea that consuming more fluids will ease constipation, or that those who rely on laxatives will become dependent on them.


"Defecation is a very private process rarely discussed with the physician but more easily discussed with friends," study author Dr. Stefan A. Muller-Lissner of Humboldt University in Berlin told Reuters Health. "Therefore it is prone to unsubstantiated theories and beliefs derived from subjective impressions and unsystematic observations."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&e=4&u=/nm/constipation_myths_dc

[metisnation]

1. Cheers

they need to discover schlitz in a 16oz can...guaranteed cure

[alfredo]

3. When you're down to Schlitz you're

out of beer.

[unpossibles]

8. you're breaking the onomatopoeia rule

never drink anything named like it will sound when it comes out later...


SCHLITZ!!!
HuuuuuDy!!
Buuussssch!

[notadmblnd]

9. Sliders (White Castle hamburgers) always did it for me

nt

[Warpy]

13. We lactose intolerant people

can have a nice dish of ice cream.

It goes through like a wildcat backwards, but it tastes better than milk of mag.

[Dave Reynolds]

2. Mountain Dew and Taco Bell..

..a magic cure.:hurts:

[not systems]

4. This message from the laxatives makers of America...

what a pant load.

[unpossibles]

5. uh... man, nothing personal, but I go A LOT

and as a vegetarian I eat a lot of fiber.

My in-laws and my dad, all are heavy meat eaters and constantly complain they can't crap at all.

go figure. This study is a bunch of crap, probably paid for by the Atkins Foundation or the Beef Mongers.

And yes - beer does seem to help.

[senseandsensibility]

11. I've noticed the beer thing

too!

[yankeeinlouisiana]

20. You sound like my son.

When he was a baby I nick-named him "Sir Poops-A-Lot"

:-)

[neomonkey]

6. This is better and you don't have to drink it

And it works better than castor oil:

[teryang]

7. Thanks for the laugh

...funny thread.

[FlemingsGhost]

10. Isn't emotional upset and anxiety behind most constipation?

Or should I be asking a doctor, and not friends?

[Ilsa]

12. I always thought it was a combination of factors,

including diet, exercise, emotional stress, heredity, neurology (urge and impulse), etc.

[hoi polloi]

17. You are correct

and I'm glad you added the ect. because there are lots more of those as well.

[hoi polloi]

18. Sorry

glad you added the etc.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. Grapes always works for me!

[murray hill farm]

15. Avacados!!!

Mexican cure!! It works, too!

[AwakeAtLast]

16. Three words: Gall Bladder Removal

I guarantee you will never have trouble again!

[yankeeinlouisiana]

19. Sugar

My doctor once perscribed a sugary (very thick) liquid that they use to sweeten medicine with. I was still nursing my daughter and couldn't use typical medicine. We were in the middle of selling our house and it was a few weeks...well, um you know...I was pretty sick.

[jmowreader]

21. Chronic constipation is caused by eating Army field rations

Every GI knows the Absolute Truth: army field rations will stop you up better than anything short of shoving a cork up your ass.

There's a reason beer is so popular among field soldiers: you get back to garrison, put away two or three beers, and you'll shit normally in a day or two.

We once left a guy to guard a case of C-rations and two radios (a VRC-46 and a Watkins-Johnson 8640) while we went in to talk to the supported commander the day before a two-week field problem kicked off. Two hours later, we came back outside to find he'd tuned the WJ to the local rock station and eaten the whole case of C-rations. And no, he didn't shit once during the entire exercise.