If there's ever a public referendum on the pros and cons of colon cleansing, the smart money will be on the side of the argument put forward by Beyonce, Mae West, Jared Leto, Lana Turner, Gloria Swanson, and Jacqueline Susann, each publicly declared extreme colon cleansers. It will not be with the editors of the American Journal of Gastroenterology.
Since the ancient Greeks and Phonecians, there's been a belief that disease-causing toxins are retained in and seep out from the bowels. So this theory holds that, without regular cleansing, what occurs in the human body is weight gain, infections, constipation, bloating, gas, allergies, parasites, irritable bowel system, and potentially cancer.
This gives Team Hollywood an easily grasped analysis. It's one that many in the Hollywood community go to work on regularly - using an extreme colon cleanser to drop weight quickly for a role or photo shoot, but also to improve energy levels needed for rigorous exercise and work schedules.
The underlying physiological framework is an understanding that the average American lugs around between 5 and 20 pounds of fecal material in his or her large intestine. It coats the walls of the colon with a residue of junk food, preservatives, sugars and food chain/environmental chemicals.
The conventional wisdom has instructed Americans that low-nutrition food, excess sugars and chemicals produced outside the body are not healthy. So it would make sense to get rid of them. This logic is what has been reported in the general media from Oprah, the tabloids, to network TV news, and demonstrated with the personal activities of the current members of Team Hollywood.
