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A thing I wondered over the weekend: Is there a correlation between frequency of bowel movements and BMI? I read a book about pigs a couple years ago. It ment
by war1025 6y ago
A thing I wondered over the weekend:
Is there a correlation between frequency of bowel movements and BMI?
I read a book about pigs a couple years ago. It mentioned that once of the main differences between breeds of pigs that are high fat and those that are more lean is intestine length.
Basically, the longer food is in your guts, the more energy gets extracted from it.
My hypothesis would be that for an obese person, the length of time between food entering the body and food exiting the body is greater than in a person of a healthy weight.
- grecy 6y agoHuh, I might have to look into that. I've always had a "high metabolism" in that I can eat enormous quantities of food (and calories) and still struggle to put on weight. If I don't lift weights often I lose weight until people comment on how skinny I am. I get the shakes and feel horrible if I skip a single meal, or if I don't constantly consume food - doubly so when working out. I also use the bathroom often, certainly every day.