As a rule we associate regular daily movements with health, but do not always recognize the part which diet plays in securing them.

If we eat little besides meat and potatoes, bread, butter, and cake or pie, we are very likely to have constipation.
This is particularly true for those who work indoors or sit much of the time.

Now, fruits and vegetables have several properties which help to make them laxative.

Many have considerable woody fiber.

In celery and asparagus we find it in actual "strings"; in cabbage, spinach, lettuce, and other stem or leaf vegetables it may not be so noticeable, but it is certainly present and we should realize that it is useful.