It's what you are.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:15 pm
Another nutrition-based comment, but this time about us.
It used to be true that I only had to look at certain foods before I would pay a visit to the boys room - less true now that I am somewhat older! By contrast my wife has always seemed to take a couple of days to 'express'!
I have always thought that this big difference in the length of time that food remains in the gut must have a big effect on what is or isn't absorped. The end result would surely be a big difference in any deficiences (or surpluses) in minerals, vitamins, etc. Yet I have never seen any of this taken into account when talking about diet - of any kind.
Similarly, body temperature varies according to the time of day, and indeed from individual to individual. Again this must affect food absorption (and medicines).
I can understand the blanket recommendations that doctors have when perscribing medicine but it does strike me as very inefficient. Similarly with dieticians.
It used to be true that I only had to look at certain foods before I would pay a visit to the boys room - less true now that I am somewhat older! By contrast my wife has always seemed to take a couple of days to 'express'!
I have always thought that this big difference in the length of time that food remains in the gut must have a big effect on what is or isn't absorped. The end result would surely be a big difference in any deficiences (or surpluses) in minerals, vitamins, etc. Yet I have never seen any of this taken into account when talking about diet - of any kind.
Similarly, body temperature varies according to the time of day, and indeed from individual to individual. Again this must affect food absorption (and medicines).
I can understand the blanket recommendations that doctors have when perscribing medicine but it does strike me as very inefficient. Similarly with dieticians.