digestion
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This network of nerves automatically controls essential bodily functions, including heart rate, digestion, and blood pressure.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
These effects are familiar concerns with medications that influence appetite and digestion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
This apparent contradiction becomes easier to understand when the different stages of digestion are examined separately.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
Researchers at Arizona State University have developed a mathematical model that explores this often overlooked part of digestion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026
He spent the whole night making incomprehensible movements in the drawing room; later they turned out to be exercises designed to perfect the mind’s control over the body and to improve digestion.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
“Here are some reliable recipes for seasonable candies warranted to be no more harmful to youthful digestions and appetites than most other candies.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
That meant that Professor Bunting probably was through fussing with the mouths, meals, appetites and digestions of the 300 orphans, whom he has had under close dietary supervision for the past five years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Michelin inspectors are a kind of Palate Guard chosen for their iron digestions, sensitive palates and impeccable integrity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Healthy men with strong digestions, Robert Burton held, need less sleep than those with weak stomachs; sanguine and choleric men need less than the phlegmatic, and the melancholic need most of all.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you are cooking for people having weak digestions then you would take the fat off the stew.
From A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery by Juliet Corson
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