The Importance of Proper Digestion and Food Assimilation by Rita Lambros-Segur, M.H.

It has been observed that health is the result of what one assimilates,

not what one necessarily eats. We accept lots of food into our bodies,

but only that which has been properly assimilated can be utilized for

rebuilding and repairing cells and malfunction areas. Proper assimilation

is acquired by "drinking the solid foods and chewing the liquid food."

This is an old and true axiom. We should thoroughly chew the solid

foods, mixing saliva with them until the food becomes a liquid; then we drink

it. The liquid foods must be swished (or chewed) in the mouth, then

swallowed. The saliva thoroughly mixed with the foods is the key that

opens up the doors of digestion. Without mixing saliva with the food,

the balance of the digestive juices are not activated for good assimilation.

By gulping, "inhaling" or bolting the food down without properly mixing

saliva with it, we only get eight to ten percent of its value. By properly

chewing we can raise this to forty or forty-five percent. The balance

is generally cellulose or indigestible fiber.

We not only receive far better health, but also save money. Food is one

of our largest expenditures, and if we can get four to six times better

assimilation, this promises superior health and a happier life. With one

fourth or one third of the food we have been used to eating, we can receive

much more power and energy.

Another must for good health is to slow down the eating procedure, relax

and be happy. Discuss pleasant things during mealtime, even laugh a little.

Such foods as soups, gruels, porridges, and purees contain so little

solid matter that the bulk, considerable though it may be when the food

is eaten, is soon reduced to a very small volume. On this account liquid

foods are almost always constipating. The only exceptions are those liquid

foods which contain much sugar, acids, or fats.

Pasty cereals such as oatmeal mush, are decidedly constipating in their

influence, because of their pasty consistency and the little mastication

which they receive. New bread, hot biscuits, "noodles," and doughy foods

of all sorts are likewise objectionable.

If the above principles are not applied, constipation and/or

indigestion can result. Premature old age and death, misery and even

crime originate from constipation more than from any other bodily disorder.

Constipation is not in itself a disease, but is a symptom, the cause of

which may be disease or simply neglect.

Indigestion is basically poor assimilation or difficulty in processing

food in order to get the proper value from it. The use of aluminum-

based digestive tablets sold on the market give only temporary relief and

aluminum poisoning is a side-effect or after-effect. However, by eating

nutritiously and supplementing our diets with a good quality herbal colon

formula (not to mention stabilized probiotics), we can set ourselves on a

much better path.

One California doctor who advised his patient to restrain his desire

for bowel movements at night and "save it till the next morning" so that

"he might have a well-formed stool," had not the first conception of the

normal function of the colon.

That one bowel movement a day is normal and efficient evacuation of the

bowels is another error which is universally entertained. One bowel

movement a day is a positive indication of constipation. X-ray examinations

of the colon after a test meal shown that in persons whose bowels move

once a day the body wastes are usually retained for fifty hours or more.

Hurst, of London, and not a few other authorities finding this condition

almost universal have been led to regard it as normal. But in this they

are certainly in error.

X-ray examinations show that in eight hours from the beginning of a

meal the process of digestion has been completed, the digested food has

been absorbed, and the unusable residue has been pushed half way through

the colon, in other words, is within two and a half feet of the lower

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