Thylacine said:
I reckon the laxative 'impact' of foods taper off a little bit if you eat them regularly. Like, if you have a whole can of beetroot out of the blue, it'll blow through ya like a pipe cleaner, but if beetroot is had everyday, the effect becomes less dramatic. Same with ground linseed, I reckon. So, my advice: rotate your laxatives, peoplematagi said:
Nah, unnecessary - insoluble fibre is insoluble fibre as far as the gut is concerned. You're not looking for a laxative effect as such, more of a faecal bulk effect to give the gut something to work on in order to promote peristalsis and mass movement. The only time you get habituation is with the stimulant laxatives like senna, etc. They lose their effectiveness with continued use and your gut can also become "lazy" so you need to keep taking laxatives and rotating them in order to get something approaching normal function.531Aussie said:I reckon the laxative 'impact' of foods taper off a little bit if you eat them regularly. Like, if you have a whole can of beetroot out of the blue, it'll blow through ya like a pipe cleaner, but if beetroot is had everyday, the effect becomes less dramatic. Same with ground linseed, I reckon. So, my advice: rotate your laxatives, people
I once had the senna stuff they sell in the supermarket, and blah!! I only had about a 1/4 of a teaspoon, and I felt a bit **** the next day, and shitted all afternoon.matagi said:
I was too scared to leave the house. I didn't even ride my bike that day
Yeah that stuff can be pretty brutal.531Aussie sharing his bowel habits with the world said:I once had the senna stuff they sell in the supermarket, and blah!! I only had about a 1/4 of a teaspoon, and I felt a bit **** the next day, and shitted all afternoon.
It is true that a large number of people eat a highly refined diet and it shows. You should watch Catalyst tomorrow, apparently the doctor in this episode compares her intestinal transit time against that of a woman whose diet consists primarily of cheese and chocolate. They eat some labelled corn, I think, and the doc gets rid of hers within 24 hours whereas the other woman takes 4 days!OzMan said:
Where's Gillian McKeith when you need her.
You've been lucky - in my experience a 1-year-old's nappy smells like something died regardless of what they've been eating. Every baby out there is a bioterrorist - that stuff is lethal, I tells ya!Thylacine said:That's pretty much all I do eat, so I'm guessing I'm safe.
I will say one thing though. We mostly feed our 1yr old on a vegetarian diet, but when he does eat meat, his nappy smells like something died. Which, I guess, did.
