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Quotes About Digestion

Eat whole wheat bread, but not the whole grain. The whole grain is too hard to digest. Never eat freshly cooked bread. It rises and buckles in the stomach. Eating freshly cooked bread will shorten your life.
~ Elijah Muhammad
H?jicha H?jicha is made of roasted green tea leaves. It has a smoky flavor and is often served with fried foods, such as tempura or tonkatsu (breaded pork cultlets), because it is thought to aid in the digestion of fats and oils.
~ Elizabeth Andoh
A sole cooked in a rich sauce of cream and mushrooms must be followed by a dry dish of entirely different aspect such as a roast partridge or a grilled tournedos, cold ham, jellied beef or a terrine of duck. It must not be preceded by a creamy mushroom soup, nor followed by chicken cooked in a cream sauce. Have some regard for the digestions of others even if your own resembles that of the ostrich.
~ Elizabeth David
When you fall asleep after a big lunch you're really just saving up energy to work off all the calories later on.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
It's so weird how people like hamsters so much better than squirrels," Veblen added, knowing that hamsters were hindgut fermenters and coprophagists, whereas squirrels were nothing of the sort.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.
~ Athenus
I don't eat white breads, and I'm off dairy due to an allergic reaction and because of what it does to the body. I've learnt a lot about different foods and how the body breaks it down and what happens when we eliminate or incorporate certain foods, and it's pretty fascinating!
~ Nargis Fakhri
Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
~ Giorgos Seferis
Fletcherizing is gross. I tried it once. I tried to go until it's all liquid, and it just creeps you out to be focusing so much on your chewing.
~ Mary Roach
People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.
~ Mary Roach
Man is an animal, but even in his animal functions, he is not confined to the implicit, as the animal is; he becomes conscious of them, recognizes them, and lifts them, as, for instance, the process of digestion, into self-conscious science. In this way man breaks the barrier of his implicit and immediate character, so that precisely because he knows that he is an animal, he ceases to be an animal and attains knowledge of himself as spirit.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Fiber and other nondigestible carbs work wonderful weight loss magic.
~ Denise Austin
My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.
~ Les Dawson
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
~ Winston Churchill
I started reading and talking and interviewing nutritionists and a thread was starting to form for me which is - a protein digests in a different rate of speed than a carbohydrate.
~ Suzanne Somers
When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.
~ Carla Gugino
Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
~ John Ray
Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.
~ Miller Barber
Un estómago que evacua puntual y totalmente es gemelo de una mente clara y de un alma bien pensada
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Certain foods have high levels, including artichokes, asparagus, plantains, seaweed, and more. All fiber-rich foods will help keep your inner garden healthy—vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, whole grains, and beans.
~ Mark Hyman
Chloride is essential for digestion and in respiration. Without sodium, which the body cannot manufacture, the body would be unable to transport nutrients or oxygen, transmit nerve impulses, or move muscles, including the heart. An adult human being contains about 250 grams of salt, which would fill three or four salt-shakers, but is constantly losing it through bodily functions. It is essential to replace this lost salt. A
~ Mark Kurlansky
those grapes are very sour to me. I am sure that they are indigestible, and that those who eat them undergo all the ills which the Revallenta Arabica is prepared to cure. And so it was now with the archdeacon.
~ Anthony Trollope
The road to health is paved with good intestines!
~ Sherry A. Rogers
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom-ah the soul-destroying boredom-of long days of mild content.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre