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Medical Forum / General / General / November 2007Contents of the diestive tract
What is the average weight of the contents of the my digestive tract? I am a 62 year old man living in England. 6'1" tall, weight 180 pounds. I realise that this word "average" is _very_ vague, and that this weight will change dramatically depending on whether I have just eaten a big meal, evacuated my bowels, etc. But I would appreciate some sort of ball-park figures.  SignatureClive Tooth http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=61771 >What is the average weight of the contents of the my digestive tract? >I am a 62 year old man living in England. 6'1" tall, weight 180 >pounds. Probably less than a pound. For more details, see http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/fecalcolon.asp -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "Saddam Hussein was a bad man, connected with some incredibly dangerous people: Cheney, Rumsfeld, George Galloway." -- Marcus Brigstocke >> What is the average weight of the contents of the my digestive tract? >> I am a 62 year old man living in England. 6'1" tall, weight 180 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/fecalcolon.asp The stomach has a volume of around 1 liter when full, which is about 2 lbs. I imagine that the small intestine can hold about 1 liter and the large intestine can hold about 1 or 1 1/2 liter, for a total of about 3 liters or about 6 lbs, although I would be most of the time the contents weigh about 3 or 4 lbs total. Jeff > -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net > These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. > "Saddam Hussein was a bad man, connected with some incredibly dangerous > people: Cheney, Rumsfeld, George Galloway." -- Marcus Brigstocke >>> What is the average weight of the contents of the my digestive tract? >>> I am a 62 year old man living in England. 6'1" tall, weight 180 [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >liters or about 6 lbs, although I would be most of the time the contents >weigh about 3 or 4 lbs total. Possibly -- but a lot of what we ingest is water, and much of that will be absorbed into the bloodstream. -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. "Saddam Hussein was a bad man, connected with some incredibly dangerous people: Cheney, Rumsfeld, George Galloway." -- Marcus Brigstocke >>>> What is the average weight of the contents of the my digestive tract? >>>> I am a 62 year old man living in England. 6'1" tall, weight 180 [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Possibly -- but a lot of what we ingest is water, and much of that > will be absorbed into the bloodstream. There have been times in my life when my intestinal contents came quite rapidly. And yes, there was a lot of water in the contents. Of course we ingest a lot of water. And water is an important part of the intestinal contents: Otherwise, stuff wouldn't be able to move through the intestinal tract. Jeff > -- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net > These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct. > "Saddam Hussein was a bad man, connected with some incredibly dangerous > people: Cheney, Rumsfeld, George Galloway." -- Marcus Brigstocke
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