Quotes About Digestion

Adults in the West produce about 200 grams of feces a day—a little under half a pound, about 180 pounds a year, 14,000 pounds in a lifetime.

The main thing to bear in mind is that carbohydrate, upon being digested, is just more sugar – often quite a lot more. That means that a 150g serving of white rice or a small bowl of cornflakes will have the same effect on your blood glucose levels as nine teaspoons of sugar.

People tend to blame the last thing they ate , but it's probably the thing before the last thing they ate.

The main thing to bear in mind is that carbohydrate, upon being digested, is just more sugar – often quite a lot more. That means that a 150g serving of white rice or a small bowl of cornflakes will have the same effect on your blood glucose levels as nine teaspoons of sugar.14

Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion. —jean-jacques rousseau

The stomach holds about one and a half quarts, which is not very much compared with other animals. The stomach of a big dog will hold up to twice as much food as yours does.

New Rule: Someone must x-ray my stomach to see if the Peeps I ate on Easter are still in there, intact and completely undigested. And I'm not talking about this past Easter. I'm talking about the last time I celebrated Easter, in 1962.

It is impossible to say how many dinners Drawlight was invited to sit down to that day - and it is fortunate that he was never at any time much of an eater or he might have done some lasting damage to his digestion.

Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!

Italians are very conscious of what they eat, how they eat, and its digestion.

I secrete jokes like the pancreas secretes... whatever the pancreas secretes.

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few books to be read wholly, and with diligence and attraction.

Some books are to be tasted (0-2), others to be swallowed (3), and some few to be chewed and digested(4-5); that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested

Mir scheint, mein Magen hat Beine.

for every gram of fiber you eat, you eliminate between 8.46 and 12.84 calories.

Our society has largely forgotten the importance of bodily posture for alertness, for digestion, and most importantly for one's psychophysical disposition. Zazen reminds the body, as well as the mind, of the beneficial effects of good posture. Moreover, zazen increases physical as well as mental flexibility, and in general it attunes our minds to the needs of the body, allowing the body to mindfully retune itself.

Klasikleri sindirmiÅŸ olan herkes, düÅŸmand?r insanl??a

hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.

When I have any sort of diet that's high in sugar or yeast, I would find that my body would be very much out of whack.

The reason fiber helps us control our weight is that it fills the belly yet yields few calories since fiber is, for the most part, not something that we can digest.