Your Table of Contents Part 2 - Food Digestion Control Valves Whatever you eat and drink is passed down along the food digestion canal by a sort of a “milking” process, known technically as peristalsis. It is accomplished by contractions of the digestive tube above the mass of food and simultaneous relaxations of that part [...]
Food Digestion
Your Table of Contents Part 1 – Food Digestion The food digestion canal is a soft tube with a hard life. Indeed, a long soft tube with, very often, a short, hard life. Its trials and troubles concern us all, for it is the one essential organ wherewith we live on our daily bread. One [...]
Excessive Belching
Part 2 of 5 – It’s Just Gas – Excessive Belching When this burping or belching occurs excessively, it is usually due to the swallowing of air, very often from hastily eaten food or hastily swallowed fluids. Not infrequently, belching gets to be a habit, a nervous habit, similar in its psychological background to nail [...]
Stomach Problems or Just Gas?
Part 1 of 5 Stomach problems and the gassy burp, like the poor, will always be with us. Though it has waned in popularity from the time when it was considered a subtle compliment to the chef, this phenomenon of social misbehavior is still by no means a forgotten art. Some people, or at least [...]
