Quotes About Digestion

We live in a strange world where the poor walk miles to get food, and the rich walk miles to digest food.

Health food makes me sick.

Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself

Man is born to eat

I think I swallowed a bug!

the black loaf that was the only bread available nowadays, named pumpernickel because it filled one with wind.

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff.

escribir siempre sería una renuncia. Un exilio. Una manera de fingir que uno sale al encuentro del otro cuando en realidad rumia, digiere, regurgita, mastica, relame, traga, se nutre, defeca sus propias e intransferibles palabras...

The kisses of the gastric juice become hot and sensual and convulsive and ecstatic.

The art of Good Eating has two essential points: one must eat only when one is hungry, and one must take small bites.

Penelope was in favor of new experiences, as long as they did not upset the digestion

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.

He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.

No internal organ is as sensitive to food as the pancreas.

elecampane is a remedy for children who swallow mucus and get an upset stomach—the bitters help digestion.

A tincture made from vinegar has the same virtues, but "it opens the more, and removes Obstructions of Stomach, Liver, Spleen, and other Bowels … whereby it effectually stops Vomiting, strengthens the Stomach, and causes a good Appetite and a strong Digestion, but it stops not Fluxes of the Bowels so well as some of the former Preparations.

Laughter aids the digestion. You can eat a huge stew with your schoolmates and digest it with no bother at all, whereas you can get indigestion eating a leaf of lettuce in boring company.

The giant fish devours the living and the dead and the inanimate. Bottles, tin cans, cuckoo clocks, truck tires, a whole sheep, an intact Newfoundland dog with its collar on, have all been taken from the stomach of white.

a study comparing thousands of omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans found that those eating strictly plant-based diets are three times more likely to have daily bowel movements.28 Looks like vegans are just regular people.

Those on a Standard American Diet lose about 5 percent of the calories they eat in their waste,1198 but a higher-fiber diet can double that.

So choose foods that take longer to eat, and eat them in a way that prolongs the time they stay in your mouth. Think bulkier, harder, chewier foods, such as apples, carrots, or intact grains, eaten in smaller, thoroughly chewed bites. Snack on raw veggies, and fall in love with soup. If possible, extend meal duration so it lasts at least twenty minutes to allow your natural satiety signals to take full effect.

Those who chewed thirty-five times per bite ended up eating about a third of a cup less pasta than those who had only chewed ten times per bite.

The most antioxidant-packed common herb is peppermint.73