stomach Archives - Steps to Life

Restoring the Temple – The Digestive System

January 7, 2020 by Sheryle Beaudry-RN,C

The purpose of the digestive system is to break down food into nutrients that can be absorbed into the bloodstream and delivered to each of those billions of hungry mouths.

Food – Gatekeepers to the Stomach

December 3, 2018 by Janet Headrick

The pyloric sphincter controls food exiting the stomach. About three times a minute, it allows less than one teaspoon of liquid and small food particles out of the stomach.

Restoring the Temple – Improper Eating

October 2, 2018 by Ellen G. White

Diligent study is not the principal cause of the breaking down of the mental powers. The main cause is improper diet, irregular meals, and a lack of physical exercise.

Restoring the Temple: Physiology of Digestion

October 1, 2018 by Ellen G. White

Exercise is important to digestion, and to a healthy condition of body and mind. You need physical exercise. . . . Healthy, active exercise is what you need. This will invigorate the mind.

Health – Chew, Chew and Chew Some More!

January 16, 2018 by Judy Hallingstad

Science has revealed that while chewing and tasting food the peristaltic activity of the colon is four times as vigorous as at other times. Consequently, if one chews and tastes his breakfast quickly for only ten minutes, he gets but little of this extra help toward elimination, while if he chews and tastes the meal for forty minutes, he receives four times as much help.

The Digestion Process

November 13, 2017 by Mike Thompson

The stomach may not share the same glamorous image as the heart or the brain, yet it is as worthy of recognition as any other organ of the body.