This is the same old argument that my friends (mainly vegetarian) use when I tell them I eat mainly meat. They quote some unnamed source as proving "when you die there is 10 pounds of undigested red meat left in your colon". A Physician friend of mine even recently told me that. When I questioned its validity he said "well, Ive dissected cadavers and I have seen whats left in the colon". Well, I too have dissected human cadavers and although there is indeed food in the colon (you would expect there to be unless one was on IV feeding immediately prior to death) I personally saw no evidence of anything amazing in there....I would also be interested in genuine citations to back this stuff up. Amanda >Please site references (which do not stand to profit by their position) >supporting the concept that food remains in the colon undigested >indefinitely. >John Pavao >---------- >Even if the diet does not add anything to the colon (and I'm not >convinced of this), I don't think it will remove what's already there. > >Micke > Amanda Hayward-Lester Ph.D Mooseker Lab, Dept of Biology KBT 342 266 Whitney PO Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103 Phone (203) 432 3469 Fax (203) 432 6161 Email [log in to unmask]