Identifier: itineraryofbre00kell (find matches)
Title: The itinerary of a breakfast; a popular account of the travels of a breakfast through the food tube and of the ten gates and several stations through which it passes, also of the obstacles which it sometimes meets
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Kellogg, John Harvey, 1852-1943
Subjects: Constipation Auto-intoxication Digestion
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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situa-tion is very much worse. In such cases thecolon often contains the residues of a dozenmeals or more. When the bowels move normally aftereach meal there is never found in the body atone time more than three meal residues andnothing remains in the colon longer thantwenty-four hours. It is probable that thenormal motility period of the human alimen-tary canal is ten to fourteen hours. That is,the residue of the breakfast should be dis-missed before bedtime, the residue of dinneron rising next morning, and the supper resi-due after breakfast or dinner. It is not to be expected that this ideal con-dition can be established in all cases, nor evenin the majority of cases of chronic constipa-tion, because in these obstinate cases the colonhas become so badly crippled, the delicatenerves and muscular machinery, by which thefood residues and body wastes are disposed ofhave been so greatly damaged, that the bestresults that can be hoped for are only an ap-proximation to normal conditions.
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Diagram Showing Condition of the Colon when the BowelsMove once Daily, containing the Residues of Six Meals. r

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