digestion
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Here, gut microbes break down nutrients that escaped earlier digestion, producing compounds such as short-chain fatty acids.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
It also estimates which products of digestion are absorbed and which leave the body as waste.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Researchers at Arizona State University have developed a mathematical model that explores this often overlooked part of digestion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
It tested every combination of recycling, landfill, incineration and anaerobic digestion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
They ate meals without water or soup, under the theory that liquid accelerated digestion and quickened the return of hunger pangs.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
“Here are some reliable recipes for seasonable candies warranted to be no more harmful to youthful digestions and appetites than most other candies.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
More strong digestions like his are needed to assimilate the art of the past and give the impetus necessary to handle new facets of today's vision.
From Time Magazine Archive
Healthy men with strong digestions, Robert Burton held, need less sleep than those with weak stomachs; sanguine and choleric men need less than the phlegmatic, and the melancholic need most of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
The War Production Board offices, where gloom has often been thick enough to cut with a machine tool, were aglow last week with broad smiles, good digestions, men humming in the halls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mary commended him for his fatherly care of their digestions, and thought no more of the matter.
From A Humble Enterprise by Ada Cambridge
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