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"if this is true no more red meat for me"
The thing is, Kirsten, meat does not take that long to digest - and that's the problem!
We have long, convoluted intestinal tracts, more than 10 times our body length if you uncoil them, because vegetable fiber takes two or three days to digest, and that's what we're designed to eat. Carnivores, on the other hand, have much more powerfully acidic enzymes and short intestinal tracts that digest the meat and spit it out rapidly. We are able to digest meat thoroughly only because we cook it. But then the digested meat hangs around inside our herbivorous intestines for at least another couple of days, and bits of it for much longer. Remember, we're at nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit in there. Imagine how a nice serving of meat would look and smell after sitting out on your kitchen counter for a few days in the summer heat. That's more or less how it rots inside us, producing carcinogens and other toxins by its putrefaction that we absorb, hosting unfriendly micro-organisms, etc.
Just one of several excellent reasons to avoid a meat-based diet - along with the massive contribution that industrial meat-production makes to global poverty and dislocation, global warming (or meltdown), and other environmental destruction, and the grossly inhumane treatment of animals destined for the slaughterhouse.
It CAN take up to three days and depends on a number of factors, including your metabolism, how healthy you are and how well you chew your food. Generally however it should take about a day to fully digest, but it can take as long as 3 days.
not completly although its said some meats take longer with certain herbs to digest most meat is out of you system in about 7 to 10 houres it really all depends on you digestive track and the type of other foods you eat
eww, my mom always told us it would make our poop stick together if we swallowed it, and i think she did it to scare us because to this day i don't understand her expression hahah
yea i only eat like chicken maybe one or twice a week. i just get a stomach ach if i eat red meats or more meat than that. thanks for your answer it was very informative =)
really cuz i already don't eat alot of red meats. and i thought if this is true no more red meat for me lol thank you =)
ok if it doesn't then how long does? you can say false to a question without explaination
I've heard, that it could take years., depending on how much we comsume..
I've heard, that it could take years., depending on how much we consume
i know that it takes 7 yrs for gum to digest O.O
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