Quotes About Digestion

For sheep don't throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.

For sheep don't throw up the grass to show shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digest their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk.

Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

South Indian lassi is made with chilled yogurt and a bloomed oil of curry leaves, mustard seed, red chile, cumin seed, and coconut. This goes perfectly with salmon or halibut with a South Indian coconut mint chutney. It gives you a spicy flavor with cooling yogurt, which provides great balance in the stomach for digestion.

When you eat foods high in fiber, you feel full faster, making you less likely to overeat and more likely to have weight loss.

I guess my weirdest fear is accidentally ingesting a sharp object.

Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

I love peppermint tea, as it's much nicer than taking anything chemical for settling your stomach.

Meanwhile, the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) arises from different midbrain/brain-stem nuclei that project down the spine to the body. In contrast to the SNS and the four Fs, the PNS is about calm, vegetative states. The SNS speeds up the heart; the PNS slows it down. The PNS promotes digestion; the SNS inhibits it (which makes sense—if you're running for your life, avoiding being someone's lunch, don't waste energy digesting breakfast).

One night the cook served us beans and more beans for dinner. Instead of sleeping, we farted all night long, which caused

There is one good thing about not eating," I said. "What would that be?" Greenlaw asked. "We've got nothing to fart with.

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

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. —The Physiology of Taste, Brillat-Savarin

Incidentally because the gastrointestinal track is metabolically greedy any reduction in its size would have freed up energy for other demands, such as those of a bigger brain.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.

IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP AND GETTING BITS STUCK IN THEIR NOSES.

Dem Soldaten ist sein Magen und seine Verdauung ein vertrauteres Gebiet als jedem anderen Menschen

The men ate seriously.

Human groups who kept cows so as to drink their milk developed digestive systems to cope, while Asians who never did this did not.

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.