Life should not be looked at something that is fair. But at the same time, it is not unfair. Our fairness is a perception of what we think a person deserves (either good or bad), usually based on how they have lived their life and treated others. In actuality, life isn’t based on these social rules; it is based on physical laws. Fairness is simply based on the perceptions that are only in our minds. Our bodies and minds are complex and incredible systems that have been developed through millions of years of evolution. The rational and reasoning that humans have is unparallel to any life-forms here on our Earth.

For the second time, I am trying to clean myself on the inside. The inspiration is simply in all the bad stuff we poison ourselves with many times a week. This mainly includes alcohol & hard to digest foods.

The person on a typical Western Diet holds 8 meals of undigested food and waste material in the colon, while the person on the high fiber diet holds only 3. (healingdaily.com)

When we continuously eat foods that are hard to digest, we don’t give our bodies a chance to digest and purge those items that are more difficult to break down. Hard to break down foods includes processed, high-fat, and complex carbohydrate (polysaccharides) foods. The harder our bodies have to work to digest the food in our system, the longer it takes to break them down and get them out. When we don’t give our bodies a chance to break down and purge, the undigested wast that our intestines have to work on start to build up. Very simply, this is why people should cleanse.

Food that remains in our digestive tract for long periods of time can become toxic, can increase mucus and plaque in the intestines, along with a lot of other nasty stuff. One very important thing about our digestive tract is that it is where the good and the bad of what we eat is absorbed and goes into our bloodstream. So the toxins that we unwittingly leave sitting in our intestines easily can affect our well being. For this, we should cleanse.

I personally am doing the Stanley Burroughs Master Cleanser Diet, published in 1976 (about $6 on amazon.com, but available at most health stores or B&N). I have heard great things from many people, but it is my first and only fast/cleanse I have ever done. You eat no food, but drink a “Lemonade” concoction 6 times daily of Lemon Juice, Grade B Organic Maple Syrup, and Cayenne Pepper. I do yoga along with it, so I supplement my cleanse with a little Apple Sauce before the yoga. Just so I don’t die. Though I’m sure I wouldn’t, but that’s the optimist in me.

I’m not, and would never claim to be, an authority on all this, but I do want to treat my body well, and function happily now and in the future. Colon Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths in the US, and the fact that we leave our intestines to be cesspools of rotting meals of days, weeks, and months past certainly helps maintain that statistic.

I will be eating junk food again; hamburgers, pizza, fries, quesidillas, cheesecake, Mexican food in general, and much more. I love food, I love to cook, I love to enjoy things that bring happiness, and I love simplicity. The effort in this case is to know what can cause a great deal of discomfort, or down the line, even death, and do our best to mitigate our risks based on what we know.

I have some links below of some potentially very helpful info:

• Lemon Cleanse – Getting started with the Master Cleanse
• Colon/kidney detoxification – 7 sections of simple and straightforward info on being healthy
• Basal Metabolic Rate