How many feet does food travel in the average adult's digestive tract?
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The alimentary canal, or the digestive tract as it is most commonly known, is 9 meters (about 30 feet) from the esophagus to the an*s.  http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/AnnaTaran.shtml
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A normal range is generally 3 times a day to 3 times a week.\n\nA person who has a perfect and fluid system, goes about 3 times a day!  Basically, after every meal.\n\nBut once a day is the okay too\n\nFor someone who goes less often, it is not that healthy for the system, though not entirely detrimental. It means waste is staying in the system for too long of a period of time.\n\nHere's more info:\nhttp://familydoctor.org/037.xml
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Normally between 5-7 liters, depending on the size of the person, or 7-8% of the persons body weight
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No it is not bad. In fact a grown up male should take a minimum of 3 litres of water or other fluids per day. It can be more than this but not less. read -\n\nHow much water do you need?\nEvery day you lose water through your breath, perspiration, urine and bowel movements. For your body to function properly, you must replenish its water supply by consuming beverages and foods that contain water.\n\nA couple of approaches attempt to approximate water needs for the average, healthy adult living in a temperate climate.\n\nReplacement approach. The average urine output for adults is 1.5 liters a day. You lose close to an additional liter of water a day through breathing, sweating and bowel movements. Food usually accounts for 20 percent of your total fluid intake, so if you consume 2 liters of water or other beverages a day (a little more than 8 cups) along with your normal diet, you will typically replace the lost fluids. \nDietary recommendations. The Institute of Medicine advises that men consume roughly 3.0 liters (about 13 cups) of total beverages a day and women consume 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total beverages a day-.
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The small intsestine is appproxiamtely 20ft 6-7 m long, in a cadavar, the small intestine is only about 2-4m 8-13 ft because of to mucle tone and the large intestine is about 1.5m ----hence the name large and small comes from the intestines width NOT length, the large intestine in wider or "larger" than the small intestines width
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The human intestine is a necessary part of the digestive system. The human digestive system consists of the mouth, the throat (pharynx), the esophagus, the stomach, the small intestine, and the large intestine. Specifically, the human intestine consists of two parts, the small intestine and the large intestine.\n\nThe small intestine is a long, narrow, coiled tube extending from the stomach to the large intestine. This is the place where most digestion and absorption of food takes place. The small intestine of a human can be as long as six to eight meters long, depending on age and size of being. So much length can be compacted into so little space because of the nature of the small intestine; it is coiled and takes up less space, while maintaining it's enormous surface area.\n\nThe large intestine is the posterior or end of the human intestine that consists of four regions the, the cecum, the colon, the rectum and the anal canal. The large intestine is wider but shorter than the small intestine. It measures approximately 1.5 meters in length and its primary function is to absorb water and electrolytes that have already passed unabsorbed through the small intestine.\n\nIn mathematics, as well as physics, the value of the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. Therefore the average length of the human intestine is equal to the length of the small intestine added to the length of the large intestine. As a result the average length of the human intestine can be anywhere from 6 to 8.5 meters in length depending on size and age of the person it occupies.
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People who eat a high-fiber diet are less likely to become constipated. The most common causes of constipation are a diet low in fiber or a diet high in fats, such as cheese, eggs, and meats.\n\nFiber—both soluble and insoluble—is the part of fruits, vegetables, and grains that the body cannot digest. Soluble fiber dissolves easily in water and takes on a soft, gel-like texture in the intestines. Insoluble fiber passes through the intestines almost unchanged. The bulk and soft texture of fiber help prevent hard, dry stools that are difficult to pass.\n\nAmericans eat an average of 5 to 14 grams of fiber daily,* which is short of the 20 to 35 grams recommended by the American Dietetic Association. Both children and adults often eat too many refined and processed foods from which the natural fiber has been removed.\n\nA low-fiber diet also plays a key role in constipation among older adults, who may lose interest in eating and choose foods that are quick to make or buy, such as fast foods, or prepared foods, both of which are usually low in fiber. Also, difficulties with chewing or swallowing may cause older people to eat soft foods that are processed and low in fiber.
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How much water do you need?\n\nEvery day you lose water through your breath, perspiration, urine and bowel movements. For your body to function properly, you must replenish its water supply by consuming beverages and foods that contain water.\n\nA couple of approaches attempt to approximate water needs for the average, healthy adult living in a temperate climate.\n\nReplacement approach. The average urine output for adults is 1.5 liters a day. You lose close to an additional liter of water a day through breathing, sweating and bowel movements. Food usually accounts for 20 percent of your total fluid intake, so you if you consume 2 liters of water or other beverages a day (a little more than 8 cups) along with your normal diet, you will typically replace the lost fluids. \n\n\nDietary recommendations. The Institute of Medicine advises that men consume roughly 3.0 liters (about 13 cups) of total beverages a day and women consume 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total beverages a day. \n\nEven apart from the above approaches, it is generally the case that if you drink enough fluid so that you rarely feel thirsty and produce between one and two liters of colorless or slightly yellow urine a day, your fluid intake is probably adequate.
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About 6 feet, which isn't an issue, unless you live at,near or below sea level. If you do, you should move anyway.
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Average is 7-8 hours (for an adult) to maintain health.
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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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Hi There\n\nThe average american has one bowel movement every 2 days and almost everywhere else in the world is 30 minutes after eating! If toxins are sitting in the colon where are they suppose to go? They get in the blood and that is main reason we get illness and disease. We Americans eat so much food that is processed and has all types of chemicals in them. It's no wonder we lead the world in the most types of diseases known. Because we have them all! \n\nTo answer your question; the process is to get herbs that help give you regular bowel movements and that helps clean out the colon. You can do this effectively with a 5-10 day cleanse by eating organic fruits and vegetables (better yet juicing them) and using herbs to help clear the toxins. Do a colon cleanse 4-5 times a year to stay safe.\n\nHere are a few websites that I recommend their plan. Id also be happy to give you more info. Ive done several cleanses over the years.\n\nhttp://www.herbdoc.com\nhttp://www.healmarketplace.com \n\nBest of health to you
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mucous (nose and airways), sweat and secrections in the bowels are all called insensable losses in a human body. they can only be estimated to be about 1500 cc in a 70kg body at room temperature. these are highly variable, mucous only may amount to less than 500 cc in a day, 900 or more for the alimentary tract and then sweat is the hardest to calculate, good luck
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no, infants haven't built up the needed bacterium that we acquire as teens and adults. this makes them susceptible to gastritis and diarrhea from common yeast and bugs we have no problem living with. that the number 1 reason parents should adhere to proper feeding stages. As for adults...digestion normally is in place and mature by age 12 to 15 and is complex...some foods like nuts,seeds, Rhine's or corn are very difficult to grind up, so in the large intestine it passes without being absorbed. most don't notice because they don't look. better chewing and plenty of liquid with meals will help.
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Oh for Pete's sake, I wish people wouldn't just guess at the answers when they clearly have no idea what they are talking about.\n\nFood has been almost fully digested by the time it reaches the large intestine and it is fully digested by the time it reaches the rectum, which is at the END of the large intestine. \n\nUnless you engage in unnatural sex acts involving watermelons, the one place in the digestive tract that is guaranteed to never contain undigested food is the rectum. The rectum is the storage for food that has been fully digested. The large intestine or rectum are about as wrong as answers could be without saying "The penis".\n\n"Pit of the stomach" is not even a biological term. It's a poetic expression much like "depths of the heart".\n\nJust to make that answer even more wrong, almost all the digestion of food occurs in the small intetsine in humans. The idea that only digested food enters the intestine has no basis in reality whatsoever.\n\nIn point of fact I have no idea what the answer is supposed to be. Digestion of food begins in the mouth with the mechanical digestion of chewing and the chemcial digestion of starches by salivary amylase. It continues constantly until the food reaches the descending colon, by which stage it is fully digested.\n\nThe only place that undigested food stays is in the refridgerator or cupboard. There is no anatomical place where undigested food stays.
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In humans, digestion begins in the mouth where food is chewed (mastication) with the teeth. The process stimulates exocrine glands in the mouth to release digestive enzymes such as salivary amylase, which aid in the breakdown of food, particularly carbohydrates. Chewing (mechanical) also causes the release of saliva, which helps condense food into a bolus that can be easily passed through the oesophagus. The oesophagus is about 20 centimeters long. The food is pushed down by a movement called peristalsis, which is the wave-like contraction of smooth muscle tissue, characteristic of the digestive system.\n\nThe food enters the stomach upon passage through the cardiac sphincter. In the stomach, food is churned and thoroughly mixed with a digestive fluid, composed chiefly of hydrochloric acid, and other digestive enzymes to further decompose it chemically for a few hours. As the acidic level changes in the stomach and later parts of the digestive tract, more enzymes are activated or deactivated to extract and process various nutrients.\n\nAfter being processed in the stomach, food is passed to the small intestine via peristalsis. This is where most of the digestive process occurs. It passes through the pyloric sphincter and enters the first 10 inches of the small intestine, the duodenum, where it is further mixed with 3 different liquids, which are bile (which helps aid in fat digestion, otherwise known as emulsification), pancreatic juice (made by the pancreas), and intestinal juice. They also add several enzymes: maltase, lactase and sucrase, to process sugars. Trypsin and chymotrypsin are other enzymes added in the small intestine. (Bile also contains pigments that are by-products of red blood cell destruction in the liver; these bile pigments are eliminated from the body with the feces.) Most nutrient absorption takes place in the small intestine. The nutrients pass through the small intestine's wall, containing small, finger-like structures called villi. The blood, which has absorbed nutrients, is carried away from the small intestine via the hepatic portal vein and goes to the liver for filtering, removal of toxins, and nutrient processing.\n\nAfter going through the small intestine, the food then goes to the large intestine. The large intestine has 3 parts: the cecum (or pouch that forms the T-junction with the small intestine), the colon, and the rectum. In the large intestine, water is reabsorbed, and the foods that cannot go thorugh the villi such as fiber, can be stored in large intestine. Fiber helps to keep the food moving through the G.I. tract. The food that cannot be broken down is called feces. Feces is stored in the rectum until it is expelled through the anus.
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Mouth, stomach, intestines.