Kristin Cavallari

GMOs are linked to digestive problems, among other things. Antibiotics and growth hormone are other additives being excessively pumped into the animals we are eating, which means we're then consuming these excess antibiotics and hormones. And some processed foods actually contain toxic chemicals, often used to prevent spoilage and enhance flavor.

American Actress

Nikola Tesla

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

Inventor

Jake Arrieta

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.

American Athlete

Ivan Pavlov

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

Russian Psychologist

Carla Gugino

When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

Billy Bob Thornton

I have type AB- blood, which is the rarest blood type. It's less than 1 percent of the whole population of the world, and it means that you don't have as many digestive enzymes.

American Actor

Jameela Jamil

My digestive system was so damaged that I became allergic to almost everything, including fruit and vegetables, and the only thing I could stomach was chicken and chips.

English Celebrity

John Torode

Fish and chips by nature are greasy, so we put vinegar on it and we like it because it helps our digestive system. The vinegar breaks down the fat.

Australian Chef

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

American Writer

David Macaulay

American Artist

Used to describe physical processes or issues concerning the breakdown of food.

Medical Context

Often used to talk about health conditions affecting the stomach or intestines.

Associated Illnesses

Refers to organs involved in digestion when paired with the word 'system'.

System Specific

In the UK, 'digestive' often refers to a popular snack biscuit.

UK Snack

Digestive biscuits come in multiple flavors and coatings such as chocolate.

Varied Types

Despite the name, digestive biscuits aren't necessarily healthy or aiding digestion.

Not Always Healthy

This form is used to describe substances that help the body break down food.

Aids Digestion

Think of 'digestive' when discussing what happens to food after we eat it.

After Eating

Digestive relates to all substances made by the body to aid digestion, not just stomach acid.

Not Just Acid

 All of these systems require energy to function and that's where the respiratory and digestive Systems come in The respiratory system is a group of passageways and organs that extracts life-giving oxygen from the air we breathe Air enters the body through nasal cavities travels down the throat and is then transported to the lung

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 in a rhythmic cycle. That pumps blood through the smooth internal walls of blood vessels, enables the intestine to constrict and push food through the digestive system, and allows the uterus to contract when a person is giving birth. As muscles work, they also use energy and produce an important byproduct, heat.

How your muscular system...

 in healthy people. So it's helpful to think of poop as exactly what it is -- all the stuff that doesn't get digested in this process. It is water, bacteria, dead cells and mucus, all glommed together with fiber. Fiber is amazing. It affects the digestive tract from top to bottom.

Why you shouldn't worry...

 gentle digestive system so if the cassowaries are at risk all the other plants and animals that rely on them are also in danger invasive species are now the number one threat to Australia's native wildlife they have already contributed to the extinction of

Nature's Oddest Looking...

 and variations in the bacteria species that live in our digestive systems. No matter the cause, obesity is an escalating global epidemic. It substantially raises the probability of diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure,

What is obesity? - Mia...

 Deeper in the depths of our gut city, the syntrophs eke out a living off the fermenters' trash. At each step of this process, energy is released, and that energy is absorbed by the cells of the digestive tract.

You are your microbes -...

 Even though calcium is often found in stones, calcium in foods and beverages can actually help by binding to oxalate in the digestive tract before it can be absorbed and reach the kidneys.

What causes kidney...

 A defence system of soldier ants ready to act at any sign of danger. A digestive system processing piles of food deep inside. Even a coordinated system for dealing with all the waste.

Army Ants Rampage...

 an external pre digestive system humanity doesn't have the benefit of four stomachs like a cow so you've had to adopt technology to enable us to thrive biting fast-growing species of

How to rebuild the world...

 It aids digestion by producing a special tonic made of water, sodium bicarbonate, and digestive enzymes. Sodium bicarbonate neutralizes the stomach's natural acidity,