On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:21:06 -0500, Alex Corvinus wrote:

> How about all spices are bad for you because they cause the stomach
> lining to exude protective fluids and prevent food from being
> absorbed? That irritant thing is called the carminative effect, and
> the juices being exuded in the stomach contain digestive enzymes. It
> has been a wide-spread custom to serve something spicy to prepare the
> stomach to receive food. Think aperitif here. Digestion may begin in
> the stomach, which is a storage organ, but most absorption in in the
> small intestine. More digestive enzymes, more exudate of bile from the
> gall bladder = better absorption of nutrients, not less.
>
> BTW: Food doesn't rot in the digestive system. That chestnut was
> debunked during the 1800's.

Does this mean I don't have 5lbs of undigested meat in my intestines? I
learned that from the movie, "Beverly Hills Cop". And I was kinda counting
on having that available during the next stock market crash.

-sw