Healthy Life Journal

NEVER underestimate constipation or difficult bowel movements because if prolonged can lead to colon cancer. Prevent a healthy lifestyle now.

Quality of life is the desire of each person, whoever it was. Various ways done to improve the quality of life itself. For example, by maintaining a good lifestyle by eating healthy foods, or can also with regular exercise.

Life in the big city and make a lot of people have difficulty adjusting healthy lifestyle because of the rush and routine of daily solid. Lack of exercise, often eat fast food that does not contain fiber, trigger constipation, or known by the term constipation.

Constipation is often underestimated. And if left to drag on could risk colon cancer. Although casuistic nature, does not occur in all people, complaining about the same people with constipation, the stomach was bloated, full, and no appetite.

Then to watch if constipation suffered more than three weeks. Such cases are usually followed by a decrease in body weight, fever, weakness, and feces (droppings) bleeding. The manure is too long in the intestines, the water content are continuously absorbed by the intestine so that the volume shrinks, and becomes hard and dry. This situation makes it difficult bowel muscle massage stool toward the rectum.

“The dirt is too long to settle in the intestines will dry up and worry about bowel will absorb the toxins from the dirt. If it happens in the long run, may trigger bowel cancer,” said Specialist Internist Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Dr Iqbal Firdaus, duhubungi some another time.

Iqbal says, actually constipation can be avoided by eating foods that contain lots of fiber. Example of the fruits and various vegetables.

“The problem today is our society still has a lot of sense to maintain a healthy diet. That’s what makes the case of constipation and increasing every year,” he said minus the glasses.

Noted, the case of constipation in several hospitals in Jakarta every year has increased compared to previous years. For example in Jakarta Dharmais Cancer Hospital, the hospital had reviewed all patients who had indicated his gut tract cancer. So even in RSCM Jakarta, occurred 50 percent increase in colon cancer patients.

Constipation not only occur in Indonesia, also occurred in many other developing countries in the world. However, in the developed countries, awareness of the importance of fiber that is so entrenched that triggers constipation cases of colon cancer can be suppressed.

Citing research results European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) some time ago, proved that the consumption of fiber in the European residents can deduct up to 40 percent risk of colon cancer formation. Research carried out for 5 years has involved 10 countries, 519,978 people aged 25-70 years old respondents.

Fiber in foods can be obtained from vegetables such as spinach (0.8 g), watercress (1g), papaya leaf (2.1 g), cassava leaves (1.2 g), cabbage (1.2 g), mustard green (1.2 g) , celery (0.7 g), lettuce (0.6 g), and tomato (1.2 g).

“Drinking water is also a very big role. By taking at least 2 liters of water per day, can soften the food in the stomach so the nutrients easily absorbed by the intestines and food waste is not hard,” said the doctor boned fat.

Iqbal further suggest, if often constipated, do not take laxatives too often because it will harden feces. If forced to take a laxative, it is advisable to select the diluent is not too hard, or laxative lightweight.

“However simple and natural way the most powerful to prevent and overcome constipation is by eating fiber from foods, fruits and vegetables, and drinking water,” he said.