What Your Feces Tell About Your Health (Part 2)
This feces article will discuss the smell, frequency, buoyancy, healthy and unhealthy, number of pieces, and formation of feces as well as a healthy digestive system, accompanying with effective and practical tips to help improve your bowel movements.
This is a continual piece of my feces article series: Are your feces healthy?, Are your feces healthy?2, Your child’s feces: healthy or unhealthy, Effective home remedies for treating hard feces/stool problems, constipation and irritable bowel movement, Is your feces/stool normal?, what causes blood (or bright red blood) in your feces?, what your feces tell about your health and How does a bowel movement affect your feces/stool and health?.
As you all already know, your stool is a good indicator in diagnosing one’s health, more precisely, your feces tells the health status of your bowel movement, gastrointestinal health as well as your digestive system. The end result of your daily feces reflects what you have been eaten or drunk recently. After all, what you eat or drink is what your feces looks like. From the clue here, you may have to adjust your daily diet to improve your bowel movement. Besides the clues regarding your diet, your feces also tell you how high the levels of your stress, anxiety, pressure, anger, and depression are. Generally, you won’t get good shape of feces, if you’re stressed at the moment, and in most cases, you will get watery feces instead of solid feces.
How Are Feces Formed?
Before we go any further, let’s get the info on how your feces are formed. While putting food into your mouth, the saliva is secreted to embark a chewing campaign to shred the food into smaller pieces before it goes down your throat. This involves the presence of bacteria, digestive enzymes, bile, hydrochloric acid, involuntary contractions or peristalsis of gastrointestinal muscles and other secretions as well, to work on each food to a consistency of mud-like soup. Meanwhile, your digestive cells absorb the essential minerals, fats, nutrients, trace elements, vitamins, starches, and sugars they need for a better cell performance. Next, the waste products continue to glide down the digestive tract; and when they are in the colon, the entire leftovers will be mixed and combined together and they are partially dehydrated in nature. After this process, the remnant or feces which include undigested food (e.g. tiny seeds, corn), intestinal secretions, water, living and dead bacteria, indigestible fiber, bile (refer to worn-out red blood cells in bile giving the distinctive brown color to your feces) and sloughed-off dead cells are then being eliminated out of your anus.
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Sexyhood03 | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
nasty subject ,but great & informative work thanks for sharring this.
PSingh1990 | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Nice Share.
UncleSammy | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Nice share good one, see you around
Jenny Heart | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Very helpful information! You make our everyday concerns easier to understand. Thanks smart one!
Jenny Heart | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
You need to become a doctor. Thanks for this helpful information Chan. Have a great day!
Anuradha Ramkumar | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Very helpful article. I’m just following this series of article of yours.
LivingFood | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Wow, I learned a lot again. For me, fiber and water are the best things for my digestive system. thank you for sharing.
PR Mace | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
Such a well researched and informative article.
Ruby Hawk | Jan 5, 2011 | Reply
thanks for the information, we don’t usually hear much about this topic.
valli | Jan 6, 2011 | Reply
A comprehensive read. Thanks for your research.
Yovita Siswati | Jan 6, 2011 | Reply
very complete information. thanks for sharing.
SowmyaT | Jan 6, 2011 | Reply
Thanks for sharing.
UncleSammy | Jan 7, 2011 | Reply
nice share, see around
Phoenix Montoya | Jan 8, 2011 | Reply
These are detailed and good discussion about stool. Most people don’t appreciate that its quite a blessing when they can still defecate regularly. Helpful article as usual Chan
Chris Peter | Jan 9, 2011 | Reply
Actually wanted to know if a floating stool was better than a sinking one …. obviously a floating one, but WHY? Is it because there is little fat in it, or is it because the fat is in it????
Thanks for this article
Chris, Western Australia
CHAN LEE PENG | Jan 10, 2011 | Reply
Hi Chris Peter,
Regardless of your poop whether they sink or float, they make minimal or no difference. Normally, healthy feces should touch the bottom of the toilet water as this indicates the presence of fiber content in the feces. But, as long as your feces is soft like banana, easy to pass, not watery, and the color is light brown you shouldn’t worry much.
Anuprita | Jan 12, 2011 | Reply
NIce share.
DrLopez | Jan 14, 2011 | Reply
While it’s not necessarily “dinner table talk” this information is definitely needed!
papaleng | Jan 15, 2011 | Reply
It doesn’t matter if this is a four-page article, it is with reading. Great info again, Chan.
CA Johnson | Jan 15, 2011 | Reply
This is very informative. I am enjoying this series because it tells me a lot of feces.