digestion
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One reason is that digestion involves more than just breaking down food.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
This apparent contradiction becomes easier to understand when the different stages of digestion are examined separately.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
By bringing human digestion and microbial metabolism into a single mathematical framework, the researchers have created a tool that could help explain why different diets produce different effects on the body's energy balance.
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
A kindly, educated old man with a big white Panama hat who worried mostly about his digestion, my grandfather entertained no political ambitions.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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“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
Few travelers in search of tranquillity and an authentic native culture would risk their dollars or digestions today on such tourist emporiums as San Juan and St. Maarten.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That meant that Professor Bunting probably was through fussing with the mouths, meals, appetites and digestions of the 300 orphans, whom he has had under close dietary supervision for the past five years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Even the usual formal dinner had to be scrambled through, with grave danger to the digestions of the youthful officers.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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