katyzzzLooking after your Colon. What your colon thinks about sweets.
April 19th 2008 02:30
What Your Colon Has to Say About Sweets
The next time your sweet tooth sends out peanut-butter-cookie signals, stave off the sugar rush and reach for a spoonful of all-natural peanut butter instead.
Why? Your colon will thank you. Ditching cookies and other sugar-laden refined carbs may mean less risk of colon cancer.
Ratchet Up the Risk
Research shows that eating a diet rife with sucrose (the stuff found in your sugar bowl and most candies and sweets) and other high-glycemic-index items can increase your risk of colon cancer. But candies aren't the only place you'll find sucrose. Check the labels on salad dressings, spaghetti sauces, and condiments, too. (Ketchup has 4 grams per tablespoon!)
Better Choices
So, what should you eat instead to keep your colon happy and healthy? It's simple.
1. Go for whole grains. Study after study shows that more high-fiber whole grains equal better colon health. Test your whole-grain smarts here.
2. Be picky about protein. Opt for fish, nuts, seeds, peanut butter, tofu, and legumes over processed meats and cold cuts -- which are linked to colon cancer. Try this recipe for Tofu with Peanut-Ginger Sauce.
3. Drink your milk -- or eat yogurt, if you prefer. The calcium and vitamin D in dairy products have a protective effect. Plus, a little yogurt can help cure this.
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Comment by the world of gaye
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You know I have read so much about what we shouldn't eat that I sort of go blank now whenever I hear another warning. I really think that the artificial sugar and additives in our food are probably causing more problems than people realise. There is an additive used in diet coke and other low calorie drinks (I just can't remember the name of it at the moment) that I have been reading a lot about, and it builds up like a toxin and causes horrific symptoms in some people. I just wonder if natural is better?
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I'm inclined to think, however, that the odd peanut butter cookie or two is not much to worry about, I can think of things far worse, but plenty of fruit and vegetables, and high fibre and not too much fat by way of trans fats is the way to go.
I've been blogging about this on MS Paint, as part of body and brain health for a long time, and my remarks here are just enough to get people moving but it strikes me with some of these things they go for overkill and if we were to be too anxious to fit their requirements, we'd never stop eating, trying to consume everything that's good for us.
I'm against a lot of vitamin tablets etc too, as there are interactions between natural foods that are not provided by alternative health artificial substitutes which are not yet understood, and some vitamin tablets have been found to be harmful.
Sorry to burden you more, but if you exercise, eat well, following the recommendations, you'll not go far wrong, provided you are not overweight, I do think Real Age, although being of value does go a bit over the top.
And no-one wants to die of sheer misery, never being able to have anything 'nice' to eat.
This is too brief really, but it is just to encourage people along the way.
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And why do they have to inflate the colon to the point that it takes hours to rid yourself of the gas bubble? There is a bit of juvenile mischief to be had after the probe, but that line of humor lacks universal appeal.
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Comment by katyzzz
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You used a couple of very strategic words there, and I have never had the "benefit" of the procedure to which you refer, not being on my preferred procedures list.
Those words are "crap" a rather vulgar description of a standard elimination method, and 'behind' which has an intimate connection with the procedures to which you refer and is much more delicately chosen.
My physicians do not send me flowers, and if you must mix with the medical high flyers, you will find yourself victim to their procedures.
Sorry about the gas, do you yawn frequently and sneeze uproariously too?
Certain bloggers, not to mention any one in particular, would be happy for anyone over 50 to self destruct, thinking that saves the country money, thereby showing their lack of any grasp of essential economics.
But you seem to be keeping the money floating out, if not in, you really need a more circular approach, now then, what was this blog all about again, food, I believe, the lack of the required elements almost guaranteeing that sooner or later that unpleasant little procedure will go on and in the surgical theatre there really are quite a few onlookers, all about learning you know.