Appointments – How to Prepare

• The day before your appointment eat a variety of fruits (especially apples), vegetables (please do not include red peppers or corn), and certain herbs — suggestion: cascara sagrada, or wheat grass, or barley green, or spirulina, or alfalfa tablets, or aloe vera juice. It helps to dissolve accumulated fecal matter.
  
• Some exercise is helpful (walking is good).
  
• Have a light meal a few hours before your appointment.
  
• Reduce your intake of refined foods, white flour, sugars and mucous producing foods (dairy products).
  
• Avoid fried foods, all junk foods and red meats.
  
• Do not chew gum, eat gassy foods, yeast producing foods, and carbonated beverages. These foods will produce excess gases and may cause discomfort and difficulty evacuating. Some examples of gassy foods are: chewing gum, cabbage, broccoli, sodas, wine, beer, hard liquor, all yeast producing foods (bread, muffins, some starches, etc).
• Do not Eat or Drink 2 hours prior to your appointment.