Does warm water like in hot cocoa help move your digestive tract?!
Does warm water like in hot cocoa help move your digestive tract?
anyone have any tips for constipstion?
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Very warm water with honey and lemon would be helpful. The warm water helps, honey has a mild laxative effect, lemon is a stimulant. A high fiber diet is the best way to stay regular with plenty of fluids as well.
If you need quick relief, a glass of prune juice will be very effective. Just remember to increase your fruits and veggies and to drink enough fluids and you should be regular everyday. Also
yogurt is excellent for the digestive tract and can improve regularity so you might want to incorporate that into your diet. If your not a big yogurt fan, you will be if you buy Brown Cow Organic Cherry Vanilla . I promise you you will absolutely adore it and your intestinal tract will, too!
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I'm a Wellness Nurse and Health Teacher
drinking coffee makes me have to go....
it sounds like you are backed up from here to st. louis.
Try drinking prune juice or watching a few episodes of Roseanne. That's enough to get anyone's bowels moving
No more than cold water would, since your body will regulate the temperature very quickly.
Fiber laxatives, prunes, prune juice all work for constipation. Avoid dairy products and red meat, eat lots of green vegatables.
Also caffeine and nicotine both have a stimulant effect that will get your bowels moving.
Cocoa contains some caffeine which is a vascular constrictor. Chocolate does too. Caffeine can bind you up.
Clear fluids, espeically water are essential for good function for everybody.
Five to 12 servings of fruits and vegetables every single day, keeps constipation away. A serving is 1 small apple, half a banana, mashed potatoes the size of your fist, a small baked potato, a peeled raw carrot, or a handful of grapes. If you must drink fruit juice rather than chew the real thing, at least choose stuff with fibre like a vegetable cocktail.
A diet of highly processed food containing no whole grains and lots of sugar, fat and salt plus a sedentary lifestyle pretty much spell constipation.
Unless you suffer from an undiagnosed condition like Crohn's or Celiac, etc. you should be "regular". As long as you eat intelligently, drink lots of water (whatever temperature you prefer), practise good sleep hygiene and move your body regularly and sometimes vigourously, you should not need to take laxatives.
If you feel that you have been "good" about your lifestyle, you may probably ought to have yourself tested for other reasons for your discomfort.
If you are constipated.. more fiber. My #1 trick for constipation is to avoid all those meds that will end up giving you diarahea anyway and eat two packages of instant oatmeal instead. Guaranteed to move everything smoothly during your next daily constitution.
Good Luck... (My fave is the maple and brown sugar :))