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Because you’re equally and fascinated and repulsed, admit it.
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I wouldn’t think so, but in the early 1900’s Horace Fletcher sought to prove it. His premise was this… if we chewed our food more thoroughly we would eat (and defecate) less. And by chew I don’t mean the 32 times rule, no. Old Horace believed one bite of shallot required 722 mastications. At that rate… by the time you finished breakfast, it would time for lunch.
And who has time for that?
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Horace was a trifle obsessed with reducing human waste and believed by chewing our food into liquid, we could poop one tenth the normal amount.
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And if you think Horace was the only researcher interested in how food was processed back in the day, let me introduce you to William Beaumont.
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This surgeon left an open wound in his patient so he could shove food straight into the stomach and observe the process of digestion. He even removed and sold the poor man’s gastric juices.
Mary Roach devotes an entire chapter to this horrible long term relationship, but I’ll just leave a link if you care to read more about it.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/grisly-story-human-guinea-pig-alexis-st-martin-180963520/
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River's world..... 
The guy with the hole in his belly should thank his lucky stars that no one put a clock in there.
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Or a radio. No one wants to reach in there to change the channel.
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I have no words to chew on…🤷🏼♀️
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No worries. I’ve got plenty and am willing to share.
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🙂
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I’m still chewing my breakfast. I’ll be back in two hours.
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Better make it three…
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I’ve got a mule, her name is Sal, Sixteen miles on the alimentary canal. There’s your musical interlude for the day.
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Appropriate, if not slightly disturbing.
😉
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Low bridge, everybody down, eeewww
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And to think the VA hospital here is named after William Beaumont….a good surgeon I’m sure. But…..ewww.
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It’s a fascinating, if not bizarre story. The patient finally ran away from the good doctor in the end.
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Well good…geez.
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Dump dinner into a blender and puree … saves all that damned chewing!
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No can do. These days chewing is the only exercise I get.
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Got no colon. No matter how much I chew I excrete liquid almost all the time. But, in the spirit of GULP, I will tell you, some foods come out almost exactly as they went in, such as carrots and raisins. Even their colour is unchanged. Weird!
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To be clear, I don’t like that you have no colon. I appreciate the good humor with which you bear up under it. Good show, old boy.
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Lost it 30 years ago, when the surgery was pretty much experimental, .Life is not the easiest, but one cannot let it get you down. It was even worse prior to the surgery. That I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. But if Trump got it, well, I would not feel sorry for him.
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Whatever that guy gets, It’s no better than he deserves.
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And hopefully a lot worse than we can imagine.
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As long as we’re sharing, for me? Corn.
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Ah, forgot about corn. I stopped eating it years ago, for that very reason.
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Absolutely no nutritious value, but slathered in butter? Yum.
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Could be the butter makes the corn slide right out, lol. But, the taste is heavenly.
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Trout like it quite a bit.
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This Post and the Link was actually very interesting. Although, I am glad I haven’t eaten yet.
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My posts are often better read on an empty stomach.
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I don’t know where you are drinking. Where ever it is stop reading those bar napkins and concentrate on your drinking… Use the time to come up with your own theories. There is no way they can be as defective as what you have been reading. Is that red squirrel b&%ch giving you bad dreams ? Sorry I have been hearing / reading too much of the news coming out of Florida. And yes I am going to change the channel. Happy dreams and better drinking.
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I drink here. I drink there. I drink most everywhere…..
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You and the Scarlet Pimpernel. Well sink me! I like this answer!
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Then my work here is done.
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OH. MY. GAWD.
For both stories, but especially the last one.
Deb
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Odd, to say the least.
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I wonder why he was so obsessed with pooping less?
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I wondered that as well….
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Couldn’t respond to your latest post—-“gone”—in any case ‘frozen’ iguanas falling out of trees is not rare down here–it is THE sign that we have winter in Fort Lauderdale—better than snow!!
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Scheduling mistake. It will be back….
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