In general, it will take four to six hours for your stomach to digest food. However, it can take between 2 to 5 days for food to move through the intestines and exit the body. You can't speed up ...

You know you need fiber—but gastro MDs and nutritionists listed a few more gut-health best practices we're adopting ...

The mouth starts the digestion process by breaking food down into a more easily digestible form. It does this through a combination of mechanical and chemical digestion. After people take food in ...

New research reveals that a vitamin found in common foods may influence how often people go to the bathroom, according to a ...

The gallbladder acts as a storage sac for bile, a digestive fluid made by the liver. When a person eats, especially fatty ...

My stomach rumbled as I sat at my desk and, given that my wife had recently been ill, I was glad that a toilet was close by, just in case. As it turned out, I dodged the microbial bullet, but it put ...

Ayurveda doesn’t count calories; it strengthens digestion. It focuses on Agni, the body’s digestive fire. When strong, it ...

The humble bowl of leftover rice sitting in your refrigerator might possess surprising health properties that fresh rice cannot claim. This ordinary leftover, often overlooked or discarded, undergoes ...