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Paul Groschen <[log in to unmask]> asked:
> are there any good texts that explain how food is digested. If I
>remember correctly I think my GI specialist stated that most of the
>digestion of corn syrup occurs in the large intestine, a problem area for CD.
First, I wasn't aware that the large intestine was a problem area for CD.
Don't you mean small intestine?
Here's an easy to read web page:
Introductory Anatomy: Digestive System
Dr D.R.Johnson, Centre for Human Biology
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy8.html
Then this page gets more technical:
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Pharmaceutical Biochemistry II
Instructor: Patrick M. Woster, Ph.D.
http://wizard.pharm.wayne.edu/biochem/carbomet.html
Don Wiss
Brooklyn, NY.