Alienlady,

I would kindly suggest that if your bowels aren't moving for 5 days as you have mentioned that you should get some exercise. Seriously.

Brown rice is actually white rice, with everything still in tact. Here's an exerpt from this great website (link below) on the world's healthiest foods. It also features recipes if you want ideas on how to prepare specific foods.

>>>The process that produces brown rice removes only the outermost layer, the hull, of the rice kernel and is the least damaging to its nutritional value. The complete milling and polishing that converts brown rice into white rice destroys 67% of the vitamin B3, 80% of the vitamin B1, 90% of the vitamin B6, half of the manganese, half of the phosphorus, 60% of the iron, and all of the dietary fiber and essential fatty acids. Fully milled and polished white rice is required to be “enriched” with vitamins B1, B3 and iron.

Basically, white rice is empty calories, hence the weight gain. It all breaks down to sugar, which turns into fat if it's not used by the body. Pasta is the same way. Try whole wheat pasta - it has more fiber and is healthier for you.

http://www.whfoods.com/foodstoc.php

Alienlady-

Rice and pasta contain a lot of GLUTEN-
GLUTEN in the body- acts as, well... GLUE.
You eat glue, and then wonder why you don't poo.
Think about that.

Stay away from the things that contain GLUTEN-
anything with white flour-
Stay away from Sugar and salt-

Drink water- lots of it.

AND GET YOUR BODY TO MOVE-

Thinking that doing the Master-Cleanse for months on end is going to help you-
is really idiotic- and sad-
You are going to do a great deal of damage to yourself.

Stop the insanity-
Good luck

Thank you Zoe. Although this is a little more complicated than the one that I read about a while ago, I will give it a try after I finish my 10-day Master Cleanse. WIll keep everyone posted on how it goes.

I don't believe the cleanse called for "raw" brown rice. Actually, I had tried eating just mainly brown rice for half the day a couple of years ago and it was amazing all the stuff that came out from just eating maybe a bowl of it. It appeared to stick to a lot of gunk in my system and therefore was able to help cleanse. I just thought if anyone had more information to confirm how exactly to go about it without doing any harm.