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
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