There seems to be colon cleansing madness. It may have also started when a well known author advocated colon cleansing as the means to start a healthier you. All sorts of exaggerations followed, such as claims that our colons are lined with several pounds of toxins an foods that have been fully digested. So tens of thousands of persons have flocked to the cure all colon cleansers. Some have gone to see their doctors and when rejected find other health care providers that are more than have to comply with the request for a fee of course. The majority of the public of course just prefers the good old fashion no work method. The easiest technique available, yes the pill popping method which is so pervasive in our society.

What are they consuming, exactly ? Noone really knows, noone has taken the time to determine what is in these products. Do they work ? Only those that have used them may notice differences, but if noone is doing any of scientifically based studies, how would anyone know. What is certain is that many a company has set shop selling this stuff that will allegedly clean your colon. Some have consider the idea, but opted to refrain themselves and not go forward and as such prefer to do further research and determine if these things work and if they do what is the best way to go about it.

What may come as a shock to a lot of people is that there are actually very easy ways to cleanse the body. The best one is probably to drink a lot of water and sweat, that is it. People go to great expense and effort to get the toxins out of their body at expensive spas which wrap them up, put them in steamers, and then have them sweat a bit. You can do the same at home. Get into some sweat pants and a sweat shirt, drink a couple of glasses of water and get into your car and sweat. You get the same results, there is nothing magical about the procedures used at these fancy spas.

What about your colon you may ask. Well there is a very simply solution to that too add dates. Edible dates, the fruit obtained from date palms. Date palms are very common in warmer climates. They are beautiful palms, what is less common is the fruit. The Medjool Date is expensive, probably more so than some of the alleged colon cleansers sold in pills, but there are also less sweet and much cheaper dates. Dates have properties that cleanse the intestines. stomach. Medjool dates and other dates have a high tannin content and therefore it has cleansing power and astringent. Unfortunately you can not go plant a medjool date palm or any other date palm for that matter in your backyard. Palms require very hot dry weather as is common in Arizona and Southern California. You can plant a beautiful Medjool Date palm in your backyard, but chances are that you will have no fruit. There you have it eat medjool dates and sweat a lot and you shall be better off than taking colon cleanser pills.