axel_knutt wrote:bigjim wrote:Your waste products are mostly cellulose from fruit and veg. The stuff your body cannot process, so maybe meat is not so bad.
But the 'stuff your body cannot process' is called fibre, which reduces the bowel cancer rate instead of increasing it like meat.
I'm always confused about that idea. As meat is completely absorbed by our enzymes there is nothing left to sit around in the intestine/colon. Its a myth about meat rotting in the colon. Its grains/fruit etc that does that, which is why we fart. So how something that disappears in a few hours gives you cancer I have no idea. Now, if we are talking about processed meat and what the industry puts in to it, then maybe there is a case for concern. Much like the pesticides on all that lovely healthy fruit. Don't get me started on sugar in, good for you, cereals, Now I'm off to my back garden to pick the last of my unsprayed Raspberries and Blackberrys for tomorrows porridge.
Oh. Cellulose is fibre which the body cannot digest, so it moves through the system and cleans your pipes. Good innit.