Likewise, even fewer people eat a diet high in raw fruits and vegetables, nature’s primary way of preventing constipation and the other problems it precipitates.

Constipation can continue to have some negative effects on health, and vitality even after people have made some diet and lifestyle improvements. While any improvement in one’s diet will have some positive effect, previous years and even decades of poor food choices generally cause chain reactions of negative effects in the body, which don’t all disappear quickly just because one’s diet improves. For example, stored toxins can interfere, directly and indirectly, with our optimal absorption of new nutrients, including those which the body would use to help rebuild and revitalize the elimination process, thus making it even harder for the body to eliminate all waste.

Fortunately, this doesn’t have to be a permanent effect of past mistakes. There are ways to assist your body in eliminating old as well as recent toxic waste, and helping your intestinal tract to function as well as it was designed to