Yet another product trying to scare people with the old:

Millions of Americans are carrying around an excess 5-10 pounds of toxic fecal matter in their digestive tract. This can weigh you down and may lead to some very unpleasant health concerns.

claim.

It’s really sad. (And pretty underhanded, knowing that this has been disproved time and again.)

Let’s see what Snopes has to say…:

Advocates of colonic irrigation products of dubious benefit use scarelore like the examples quoted above to indict the American “goo and glue” diet and validate their claim that the practice is a safe and effective means of curing a variety of ailments by purging the body of all sorts of sludge and toxins.  Vegetarian groups employ this horror story to demonstrate that a meat-based diet is both unnatural and unhealthy for human beings.  Hence stories circulate about alleged post-mortem discoveries that celebrities (such as John Wayne and Elvis Presley) who epitomized the “meat and potatoes” diet, gluttony, or other negative eating habits had some tremendous amount (40, 60, or even 80 pounds) of “impacted fecal matter” or “impacted feces” lodged in their intestines.

Anecdotes such as these are, in a word, crap.

(More at above link.)

So here is another ‘crap’ product trying to scare people into buying another ‘magic’ cure for a problem that doesn’t even exist!  They should be ashamed of themselves!

Stuff like this makes one wonder exactly how we were supposed to have survived until such a marvellous, healthy means of clearing out our entrails came along…

Robin Bobcat - 02 October 2009 12:56 AM

Stuff like this makes one wonder exactly how we were supposed to have survived until such a marvellous, healthy means of clearing out our entrails came along…

We didn’t.  Apparently we are all just figments of some alien beings imagination.

That reminds me of something.  If we are carring around poundage of fecal matter in our intestines (from eating meat I’m told), why are we taught in science class that vegetables are harder to digest than meat?  Shouldn’t there be 10 pounds of “Dave’s Magic Vegetable Soup” in my intestines?

Thanks to the miracles of both my pathetically lactose-intolerant stomach, and my inability to digest fatty foods thanks to my gall bladder, I can get a ‘colon cleansing’ any time I want. Double cheeseburger and a milkshake, and make sure the path to the restroom is clear.

And no, I don’t feel particularly ‘healthy’ afterwards.

Bebelicious - 02 October 2009 01:40 PM

Shouldn’t there be 10 pounds of “Dave’s Magic Vegetable Soup” in my intestines?

That must have been the Scots? Suggesting to make the soup in intestines like haggis?

Bebelicious - 02 October 2009 01:40 PM

  Shouldn’t there be 10 pounds of “Dave’s Magic Vegetable Soup” in my intestines?

Dinner is at 8.
It is BYOB…...which is short for: Bring Your Own Bread!
*...Adds another pound of flesh to the pot…*

DavePrime - 02 October 2009 04:21 PM

Dinner is at 8.
It is BYOB…...which is short for: Bring Your Own Bread!

“Bread”? You mean, “Bowels”?

Robin Bobcat - 02 October 2009 02:03 PM

Thanks to the miracles of both my pathetically lactose-intolerant stomach, and my inability to digest fatty foods thanks to my gall bladder, I can get a ‘colon cleansing’ any time I want. Double cheeseburger and a milkshake, and make sure the path to the restroom is clear.

And no, I don’t feel particularly ‘healthy’ afterwards.

With me it’s grapes.  I know, I know. TMI, But grapes are suposed to be a cancer preventative/cure.  Maybe they just chase all the bad stuff out before it can take hold?

Oh, by the way,... milkshakes just make me stronger….

“POWER TO THE MILKSHAKE”

Does your milkshake, in fact, bring all the boys to the yard?

Robin Bobcat - 03 October 2009 10:54 AM

Does your milkshake, in fact, bring all the boys to the yard?

  Only when done to prevent cancer1