How long does food stay in our stomach before passing through?
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Everything exits the stomach in about 2 hrs.
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meat stays in your actual stomach for longer than other foods before it moves along the digestive tract, so you are, in a sense, full for a longer period of time and it takes longer for your body to digest protein than carbs and fiber, so the meat moves along your system more slowly, telling your body that it is not hungry. Ie, you eat a candybar and it is through you in a few hours and it is simple sugar that is easily digested so it is time to be hungy again.....you eat a steak, it is in your stomach for about 4 hours then it moves along and is more difficult to break down..taking much much longer. the headache is your bodys way of saying that is needs more of something...
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It takes an average of 18-24 hours for a meal to be fully digested and move into the large intestine as the waste that cannot be digested, which becomes feces.  The more one eats, the more one has to get rid of in the bowel movement.  It also depends what you eat.  Foods high in fiber, like fruits, vegetables, and whole wheats, have a lot of components that are not digested and move right through the digestive system.  The large intestine is about 6 feet in length, so it has the capacity to store a lot of stuff.  However, feces cannot be stored for very long times.  When fecal matter has moved into the sigmoid colon an rectum, the pressure increases and receptors in the rectum fire to the brain to tell other rectal muscles to contract and have a bowel movement.   Bowel movements with a week or more between indicates a slow digestive tract and possible backup of compacted fecal matter that is almost stuck to large intestine.  Laxatives or possible mechanical methods can be used to fix this.
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0 days. There is always a fresh supply. It is secreted into your mouth and swallowed almost immediately.
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The digestion begins in the mouth. The teeth chew & grind the food, so they perform physical digestion. Next, the saliva contains ptyalin, which helps to digest starch into maltose sugar. the food then moves down the oesophagus.\n\nIn the stomach, the gastric juices are secreted, which contain Hydrochloric acid, pepsin (enzyme), gastric lipase and mucus. Pepsin digests proteins into peptones. Gastric lipase breaks down fat molecules. The partially digested food then goes into the duodenum. Here, bile and pancreatic juice are secreted. The pancreatic juice contains trypsin and pancreatic amylase. The bile emulsifies the fat. The trypsin digests proteins, while the emylase digests breaks down the starch. Finally, the walls of the ileum secrete succus entericus, which completes the digestion of carbohydrates into glucose, proteins into amino acids and fats into fatty acids.
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it depends on your body demand for water. generaklly water can be absorbed completely by alimentary system
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I read in Prevention Magazine that it's best to eat 2-4 hours before you exercise and make sure you drink plenty of water. You can eat right after exercising.
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When you chew you start the digestive process; then you swallow and the food goes into your stomach where it is mixed with gastric juices which help breakdown your food before it goes into the digestive track of the bowels.  Your stomach/bowels are constantly contracting and moving things along. Godloveya.
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its when you food is diagested and the way it goes in your body.
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1. Draw and label a picture of the digestive system and trace the route that food takes through your body using a red crayon. (Hint: The picture at The Digestive System is a simpler to draw. You may want to use that site to get your drawing started.)\n \n2. Describe your digestive system. What mixes with the food when it is in the stomach? What does it do to the food? How long does food stay in each area? Share two interesting facts you learned about the digestive system.\n \n3. Draw a food pyramid and label it with the different food groups. Name the different categories of foods and how many servings a day you should eat.\n \n4. Below your food pyramid, list the food groups in a row across the paper. Under each food category list all the food you have eaten in that category for one whole day.\n \n5. Evaluate your eating habits. How did you do? What should you do differently to have a healthy body?
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Ive heard that the average human being can go without food as long as they still have water for a full month.  I've personally gone 2 weeks without food.  Just to see.  Then I got so hungry that I got sick.  And I had to eat.  But at least I know what my limit is now!
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It absorbs nutrients from your digested food.
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The food doesn't enter the blood stream.  It is broken down and the absorbed nutrients are recognized.
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No- this is fine.  Normal for two hours after eatting is 70–145.
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dont worry! your stomach is just digesting all the water that you took in and you will lose that belly bulge in 2 days or less. its just water and doesnt have any fat.
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I'm not sure I understand...\n\nWhat does a piece of gum in your stomach have to do with swimming?  The gum is going to pass through your body with or without digesting within a few days.  Do coins digest?  No, but they pass through your system and out the back end quick enough.
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The stomach is a J-shaped, expandable sack, normally on the left side of the upper abdomen. Several muscle layers surround the stomach, serving to churn food. The stomach can expand to hold about 2 L of food (= 1/2 gal). The stomach contains hydrochloric acid (HCl) strong enough to dissolve metal (pH about 1.5 to 3, usually around 2), which kills bacteria and helps denature the proteins in our food, making them more vulnerable to attack by pepsin. The stomach secretes mucus to protect itself from being digested by its own acid and enzymes. The stomach also manufactures pepsin, an enzyme to digest protein. The average person secretes about 400 mL of gastric juice per meal, containing 50 to 300 µg pepsin/mL. For an average of around 200 µg/mL × 400 mL of gastric juice, this would be 80 mg (or 0.080 g) pepsin/meal. For HCl with a concentration of around 6.08 g/L × 400 mL, this would be 2.4 g/meal.\n\nIn short this means that when you hold in your stomache during and after a large meal, stomach acid has no place to go but up and may enter and burn the esophagus. This situation has a medical term called: Hiatal hernia.\n\nHolding in your stomache during and after a meal is a very bad idea.