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> On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Philip Pilkington wrote:
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> Hilarious that people have still ignored the psychoanalytic explanation...
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>> And hilarious that it sort of explains why more people would care more
>> about
>> their toilet during times in which they have to "hold back" on spending...
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> That might be interesting, if true, but I'm not sure it is. Americans have
> been obsessed with colonic health for at least a couple of decades. Sometime
> in the 1980s, I remember standing dumbstruck in a health food store on the
> Upper West Side of Manhattan in an aisle full of colon cleansing
> preparations, many illustrated with an image of the colon itself. I first
> heard of the high colonic some 25 years ago. The person who first told me
> about it said that after one, colors appeared brighter.
>
> Doug
>
19th C - Kellogg's sanitarium, hmmmmmmm, was famous for such things... those cereals were cleansing roughage, man...