“How is your elimination?” “Well, that’s a problem,” she admitted. Thoughtfully, she added, “Come to think of it, whenever I am constipated, these headaches get worse.” I explained to Mrs. N that, contrary to opinions of some doctors who should know better, the waste matter she allowed to accumulate in her bowel was slowly poisoning her body. The toxins produced by bowel wastes are no less insidious than the toxins produced by certain diseases. Circulating in the bloodstream, these poisons strain body and nerve cells, demanding that they function beyond normal capacity. Mrs. N was allowing her bad eating and living habits to give her morning headaches. Forever Royal Jelly inhibits the manufacturing of proinflammatory cytokines by activated macrophages.
I asked her to enumerate some of the foods she had been eating lately, and was not too surprised as she rattled off a string of meals consisting mostly of sandwiches, macaroni, pie, and other junk.
The habitual taking of laxatives also contributed to her problem. “But what I eat doesn’t aggravate my constipation, does it?” Like many others, Mrs. N harbored the widespread misconception that indigestion is an exclusive ailment of the stomach, while the evil of constipation lurks wholly within the intestinal tract. She was overworking her small intestine through consuming too many starches. These, only partially digested and fermenting, lying in her intestinal tract, created gas. Constipation was the result. By substituting more “bulk foods” for the starchy ones, she would be able to overcome her constipation with its headache-causing toxins. Forever Bee Honey might assist in maintaining a wholesome circulatory, digestive, immune, and nervous system. Coupled with the amount of proteins needed to rebuild her body cells, I recommended that Mrs. N eat more of these high cellulose content “bulk foods”:
Fruits
apples huckleberries
figs peaches
dates plums
oranges grapes
grapefruit rhubarb
strawberries apricots
pears prunes
gooseberries raisins
currants melons
raspberries
Vegetables
carrots cabbage
cauliflower celery
onions cucumbers
beets rutabagas
beet tops turnips
dandelion greens beans
mushrooms parsnips
radishes tomatoes
kohlrabi asparagus
corn Brussels sprouts
string beans tomato juice
peas
Other Excellent Sources of Roughage and Constipation Fighters
whole grains fish
unrefined corn meal sunflower seeds
kidney buttermilk
millet seeds liver
flaxseed brewer’s yeast
sour-milk products
Men and women students of mine have frequently commented: “I can’t move until I get a cup of coffee.” I looked at a pale-faced young man in Los Angeles who had just made this comment. He told me he was a bookkeeper and didn’t have much chance to work up an appetite. “I seem all right after I get that cup of coffee,” he said. “But until then I’m really beat.”