Quotes About Digestion

Fiber is naturally concentrated in only one place: whole plant foods. Processed foods have less, and animal-derived foods have no fiber at all. Animals have bones to hold them up; plants have fiber.

Comparing the absorption of fat from peanuts to the exact same number of peanuts ground into peanut butter, you flush more than twice the amount of fat down the toilet when you eat the peanuts themselves.

study when chewing a bite thirty-five times was shown to beat out chewing only ten times and resulted in 12 percent fewer calories eaten at a meal.

Experiments simultaneously varying bite size and oral exposure time with solid food found the same phenomenon: It's better to nibble and savor than chomp and gulp.

demonstrated that regardless of how we boost the amount of time food is in our mouths, it can result in lower caloric intake.

Part of that was due to the lower calorie density of the plant-heavy diet, but people also spent about 40 percent more time chewing, for seventeen minutes per meal compared to twelve minutes.

If you want to take a good shit, you have to eat a good meal.

Ah, the belly has a better memory than the heart!

Avoid having a very large meal before bedtime.

Don't swallow a scythe if your stomach isn't curved

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

experiments, some of them rather gruesome. On one occasion, he fed two prisoners the same large dinner, sent one to bed and the other on a headlong hunt, then cut them open to see which had better digested the meal. (It was the sleeper.)

Parody was one way Americans safely digested their class politics.

Tell your friends not to think aloud Until they swallow.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains." Henry Wheeler Shaw

Several types of bacteria identified with SIBO, such as Bacteroides fragilis, Clostridium perfringens, and Streptococcus fecalis, possess protein-degrading enzymes that can destroy brush border enzymes including lactase, sucrase, and maltase, which are necessary for the final breakdown and absorption of carbohydrates.[92]

Constipation predominant IBS - The methane connection.

laughter is good for the digestion.

You have taken the important, essential core of the apple, including (one must not forget) the nasty pips, and scales (I do not know what you call those little things) which must be spat out.

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

The stomach is the teacher of the arts and the dispenser of invention.

“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated?