Who needs such a long intestine, anyway?
Flatulence peaks twice a day... five hours after lunch and five hours after dinner.
The simplest strategy for bouts of noxious flatus is to not care. Or perhaps to take advantage of a gastroenterologist I know: get a dog. (To blame.)
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
As fiber and other nondigestible carbs pass through your intestine, they bring other nutrients - often fat - along for the ride. This prevents your intestine from breaking down and absorbing some of the fat and cholesterol from the food you eat.
How about this, have you ever farted so hard you shivered?
Doctors said that the test most commonly used to screen for colon cancer doesn't go far enough. They're recommending a procedure that involves photographing the entire colon. I say, don't vie CBS an idea for another reality show.
The average person expels flatulence 15 times each day!
A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.
I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.
A person who can break wind is not dead.
I know that I have a special stomach.
One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!
Crohn's patients differentiate their diet. You know, what I can handle and tolerate, another person couldn't, and what they can, I can't.
I really enjoy eating food thats light on the stomach.
Symbiosis can fail in various different ways: if there's too much stomach bacteria in my stomach, I might have some problems. If there's too little, I might have some problems. There's a sort of dynamic system there.
All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
