What is a Healthy Stool Like?
First of all, a healthy stool should be soft, loosely formed and easy to pass. If you regularly have to strain to eliminate, consider yourself constipated. Second, your stool should come out in long pieces (6-8 inches in length) that should be about as thick as two fingers (your index and middle finger in particular). If your stool passes in hard round balls or big thick logs, you ve got elimination problems. Third, unless you ve got a food in your diet that s coloring it (like beets or liquid chlorophyll), your stool should be a light brown color. If it is consistently black or a very dark greenish-brown, your liver and gallbladder need some help. You ve also got gallbladder problems if your stool is very pale (a light clay color). Fourth, contrary to popular belief your stuff shouldn t stink. That is, your stool shouldn t have a rank odor when you pass it. If it does, you ve got a toxic condition in your bowel not healthy! Fifth, you should generally eliminate about two to three time
