Colon Diet and Red Meat
Does red meat raise your risk of contracting colon cancer?
By Jarrett Kruse
There are a lot of negative effects associated with the consumption of red meat, and this is why more and more people are now giving up red meat and moving to healthier foods like fish, free-range chicken, or soy products like soy milk and tofu. This is where you will get your best protective effect and colon disease prevention. In addition, you will be helping protect the environment at the same time.
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Many studies indicate that a diet eating a lot of red meat increases a person’s risk of developing colon cancer. Here’s one more to add to the pile. If you are trying to reduce your risk of developing colon cancer, it would be a good idea to evaluate your red meat consumption. You now have an idea of how much is too much with regard to colorectal cancer risk. The typical Western red meat and colon diet has become somewhat standard in our country making eating healthy harder and harder.
A healthy diet will consist of eating more fresh fruits and vegetables and especially those high in fiber such as pears, peas, broccoli and apples to maintain a healthy colon. The skin on these fruits and vegetables will certainly help as they will add fiber to your healthy colon diet. This fiber turns these foods into a lubricated substance when combined with water in your body and passes through the intestines adding bulk which helps make stools more gelatinous and easier to pass. Insoluble fiber has great water retention properties, making it a natural laxative for constipation. To ride yourself of the toxins that build up from over-indulgence of red meat, you may have to look into more serious options like colonic irrigation, hydrotherapy or colon cleansers. These may be the only choices to “reboot” your body and change your eating habits completely while getting rid of the garbage that has build up in your gastrointestinal tract making you more susceptible to colon cancer.
