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Quotes About Digestion

incontinence. In its mildest form, it can be an inability to control gas (which everyone seems to complain of) or a sense of urgency to move your bowels.
~ Stephen E. Goldstone
Fiber and other nondigestible carbs are bulky and tend to slow digestion, which, in turn, eases the absorption of glucose into the bloodstream. When glucose enters the bloodstream more slowly, cells are better able to burn it for energy.
~ Denise Austin
Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
~ Dana Perino
DO ALL YOUR EATING AT A TABLE.
~ Michael Pollan
All passions that allow themselves to be savored and digested are only mediocre. -from Of sadness
~ Michel de Montaigne
I have heard Silvius, an excellent physician of Paris, say that lest the digestive faculties of the stomach should grow idle, it were not amiss once a month to rouse them by this excess, and to spur them lest they should grow dull and rusty; and one author tells us that the Persians used to consult about their most important affairs after being well warmed with wine.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Since plants pull minerals from the soils—micronutrients essential for human health—they serve as a conduit, taking the soil—the environment—putting it into a digestible form, and passing it on to us. Each time we take a bite of food, part of the environment literally becomes part of our biological fabric, our bodies. At the risk of sounding like a hippy, the Earth is part of us.
~ Brendan Brazier
Sai, negli ultimi mesi ho mangiato tante di quelle pesche in scatola, che ieri notte ho praticamente cacato una crostata.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
It Isn't nutrition until it's eaten.
~ Brian Wansink
Many of us, both monastics and laypeople, learn about the Buddhadharma without anything changing in our life. Our personality remains exactly the same because we cannot digest and apply what we've learned. What we've learned doesn't help us and so we can't help anyone. Zen doesn't travel along a path of learning through writing and words; it relies on direct transmission between teacher and student.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When we've accumulated so much knowledge inside, we don't have the capacity to digest it. It's like when we eat too much food, we can't digest it and we become constipated.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
stomachs aren't supposed
~ Gary D. Schmidt
Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus repair the losses which the human body suffers through the act of living.
~ Brillat-Savarin
Already there is a study that shows that when humans digest genetically modified foods, the artificially created genes transfer into and alter the character of the beneficial bacteria in the intestine
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Judging from the molten aspect of the diarrhea, it'd probably been something Mexican
~ Bryan Smith
hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias
~ Herman Melville
it stayed for a twelvemonth or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in small tacks, d'ye see. No possible way for him to digest that jack-knife, and fully incorporate it into his general bodily system. Yes, Captain Boomer, if you are quick enough about it, and have a mind to pawn one arm for the
~ Herman Melville
Fasting makes the body cave in; hence the spirit caves in; and all thoughts born of a fast must necessarily be half-starved. This is the reason why most dyspeptic religionists cherish such melancholy notions about their hereafters. In one word, Queequeg; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
~ Herman Melville
L'inferno è un'idea nata originariamente da un pasticcio di mele mal digerito e da allora perpetuata attraverso le dispepsie ereditarie prodotte dai Ramadan.
~ Herman Melville
Oh, boys, don't be sentimental; it's bad for the digestion!
~ Herman Melville
Flushed with the explosive shit of a sumo wrestler who ate Mexican food.
~ Hillary Frank
I try to start every day with some sort of vegetable and fruit juice before I eat any kind of solid food. Because that really jump starts your body and digestive system with the high content of micronutrients that your body needs.
~ Jake Arrieta
If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.
~ Guy Fieri
Your body requires hydration to digest your food, to regulate your hormones, and to be able to think clearly.
~ Mandy Ingber