How to get rid of laxative dependency?

Question

How to get rid of laxative dependency?

Answer 1

Start eating right.  Increase your fiber and fresh fruit/vegetable intake.  That should do it.

Answer 2

start a correct diet plenty of fruit vegetables start with getting a proper breakfast  then fruit for morning tea  a salad sandwich for lunch a yoghurt for afternoon tea then  some fish chichen or such like for tea if you are a vegaterian you supplement  this with beans sprouts and the like it takes a bit to stick to but get there you will

Answer 3

Drink lots of water, sauerkraut juice helps, too. Also, when you stop taking the laxatives, start eating more bulk-forming, fiber-rich foods from the list below. All-Bran and Kellogg's Mini Wheat helps me a lot.

Good luck!

The Top Twenty Fiber Foods

This list can serve as a general guide. For more specific calorie and fiber content of particular foods, to estimate your daily and weekly quotas, refer to the alphabetical chart that follows:

1. Dried beans, peas, and other legumes

This includes baked beans, kidney beans, split peas, dried limas, garbanzos, pinto beans and black beans.

2. Bran cereals

Topping this list are Bran Buds and All-Bran, but 100% Bran, Raisin Bran, Most and Cracklin' Bran are also excellent sources.

3. Fresh or frozen lima beans, both Fordhook and baby limas

4. Fresh or frozen green peas

5. Dried fruit, topped by figs, apricots and dates

6. Raspberries, blackberries and strawberries

7. Sweet corn, whether on the cob or cut off in kernels

8. Whole-wheat and other whole-grain cereal products.

Rye, oats, buckwheat and stone-ground cornmeal are all high in fiber. Bread, pastas, pizzas, pancakes and muffins made with whole-grain flours.

9. Broccoli-very high in fiber!

10. Baked potato with the skin

(The skin when crisp is the best part for fiber.) Mashed and boiled potatoes are good, too-but not french fries, which contain a high percentage of fat.

11. Green snap beans, pole beans, and broad beans

(These are packaged frozen as Italian beans, in Europe they are known as haricot or french beans.)

12. Plums, pears, and apples

The skin is edible, and are all high in pectin.  

13. Raisins and prunes

Not as high on the list as other dried fruits (see #5) but very valuable.

14. Greens

Including spinach, beet greens, kale, collards, swiss chard and turnip greens.

15. Nuts

Especially almonds, Brazil nuts, peanuts, and walnuts (Consume these sparingly, because of their high fat content.).

16. Cherries

17. Bananas

18. Carrots

19. Coconut

(dried or fresh-but both are high in fat content).

20. Brussels sprouts