Norman Walker - Colon health: the key to vibrant life

the KEY
to a

VIBRANT
LIFE

Norman W. Walker,
D.Sc., Ph.D.

copyright 1979 by Dr. N.W. Walker

1995 Edition Updated and Revised

Reprinted Annually Since 1979.

All rights reserved. Reproduction in any manner without written permission is prohibited except for brief quotations used in connection with reviews for magazines or newspapers.

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Published by Norwalk Press

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1995 edition Colon Health updated/revised by Helen
M. Wood, President: Wood Hygienic Institute

ISBN 10: 0-89019-069-0

ISBN 13: 978-0-89019-069-2

In publishing this book, it is not Dr. Walkers or the Publishers

intent to diagnose or prescribe, but only to inform the reader.

Dr. Walker recommends the reader contact a professional

doctor specializing in the appropriate subject.

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Its rare that the condition on ones colon is spoken of openly or aghast -shared in mixed company.

So, heres a terrific option reading is also something we do privately. Take some time alone and open up these pages, not only will you get more answers than you thought you had questions to, but - trust me - this is really a very interesting book!

The original design of the human body is as its always been. We put food in our body. The nutrition is absorbed into our body. Finally what is left - exits - the body.

Many of the health problems that we live with are problems we can control by getting rid of what should be moving through our systems not collecting in them.

In closing let me just say - you still dont have to verbally share this information, you can just share a book.

Carolyn Hoffmann

Editor

I can truthfully say that I am never conscious of my age. Since I reached maturity I have never been aware of being any older, and I can say, without equivocation or mental reservation, that I feel more alive, alert, and full of enthusiasm today than I did when I was 30 years old. I still feel that my best years are ahead of me. I never think of birthdays, nor do I celebrate them. Today I can truthfully say that I am enjoying vibrant health, I dont mind telling people how old I am: I AM AGELESS!

Norman W. Walker, D.SC., Ph.D.

Vibrant Health

Your body is the house in which you live. By analogy, it is just like the building in which you make your home. Your home needs, at the very least, periodic attention. The roof may leak, the plumbing may get out of order and clog up, termites may drill through the floors and the walls, and other innumerable cases of deterioration may make their appearance. Such is the case with your physical body. Every function and activity of your system, day and night, physical, mental, and spiritual, is dependent on the attention you give to it.

The kind and the quality of the food you put into your body is of vital importance to every phase of your existence. Good nutrition regenerates and rebuilds the cells and tissues which constitute your physical body. Undigested food, and the processes by which waste matter is eliminated from the body, without fermentation and putrefaction, is dependent as well on good nutrition. The possibility of attaining any degree of vibrant health is prevented if such fermentation occurs, accumulates, and is retained by the body.

The elimination of undigested food and other waste products is equally as important as the proper digestion and assimilation of food. In fact, I can think of nothing more significant and vital than preventing the danger of inevitable effects of toxemia and toxic poisons that are a result of the neglect and failure to expel feces, debris, and waste matter from the body. Few of us realize that failure to effectively eliminate waste products from the body causes so much fermentation and putrefaction in the large intestine, or colon, that the neglected accumulation of such waste can, and frequently does, result in a lingering demise!

HEAD, CHEST & ABDOMEN

The reality and importance of this colon problem was brought to my consciousness when I was a very young man. I was visiting an Aunt in Scotland when one morning a sudden piercing shriek ran through the house from the living room. There, on the floor, curled up in convulsive agony, was my favorite teanage cousin. The doctor, was called immediately, he declared she must have burst her appendix. She was rushed to the hospital in the family carriage in the company of the doctor, but she died within a few hours. The old doctor said he did not know what caused the appendix to burst; he was not taught in medical school that it is the natural result of neglecting the colon. From that day to this, the colon has been the focal point of my research.

If a person has eaten processed, fried and overcooked foods, devitalized starches, sugar and excessive amounts of salt, his colon cannot possibly be efficient, even if he should have a bowel movement two to three times a day! Instead of furnishing nourishment to the nerves, muscles, cells and tissues of the walls of the colon, such foods can actually cause starvation of the colon. A starved colon may let a lot of fecal matter pass through it, but it is unable to carry on the last of the digestive and nourishing processes and functions intended for it.

In order to live, the human body must be nourished. The cells and tissues composing the anatomy are live organisms with an amazing degree of resilience, elasticity and buoyancy. To be able to replenish and re-invigorate these cells and tissues, their nourishment must necessarily be composed of live elements, i.e., foods with life-giving properties. There are also foods whose ultimate function is to cleanse and remove used-up cells and tissues and pilot this waste matter to the colon for evacuation.

The fiber which is so essential for the proper and complete digestion of our food is needed in the colon just as much as in the small intestine. Such fiber, however, must be composed of roughage, that which is found in raw foods. When these fibers pass through the intestines they become, figuratively speaking, highly magnetized, and in this condition are very helpful in the functions involved in the various parts of the intestines. In addition to receiving the residue of that part of our food which is not digested, the colon also accommodates itself to the fiber the roughage in the food upon which it depends for its intestinal broom.