Bowel motions - what is normal for women?

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Hi All

Here is an interesting background paper about normal bowel habits for women.

Dis Colon Rectum. 2007 Jan 3; : 17205205 (P,S,E,B,D)
Female Bowel Function: The Real Story.
[My paper] M Zutshi, T Hull, J Bast, J Hammel
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Desk A-30, Cleveland, Ohio, 44195, USA, [email protected].

I found it here, http://lib.bioinfo.pl/pmid:12576898/pmid/sim , along with a whole heap of other continence research paper summaries.

What a commonsense approach. I know that we all *know* when we want to empty the bowel and nothing will come, but it seems that a bowel motion every day is not normal for many women!

Also, just because something is normal, does it make it healthy? Maybe not.

Cheers

Louise

I think 'normal' is just a word they like to throw out there to make us feel abnormal. What is normal for you will prolly not be for me...

The more whole and unprocessed foods you eat - The easier it is for the body to digest it - So things 'move' more freely...

I know when I eat strawberries and fruits like that things move much faster/easier. And when I eat meat, processed foods etc - Thing block up...

Its interesting though to think that we should be their form of normal instead of what is normal for our bodies....

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