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Fibrous food adds bulk without calories – a bonus for anyone trying to lose weight – and also helps our intestines move digestive waste through (and out of) our bodies. Exercise, drinking plenty of water and increasing your fibre intake are often all that is needed to help remedy constipation. In developed countries people use laxatives far more often than necessary; laxatives can potentially aggravate things because they don’t address the root cause of constipation and may encourage the guts to become inactive without them. (Stimulant laxatives work by speeding up the muscular movements of our gut, forcing our waste food to be eliminated much more quickly than normal.) The same goes for enemas: according to the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse, the regular use of enemas ‘can impair the natural muscle action of the intestines, leaving them unable to function normally’.