stomach Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/tag/stomach/ To prepare people for eternal life. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 02:09:51 +0000 en hourly 1 https://www.stepstolife.org/WordPress21/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-Cross-from-STL-Bible-Study-Logo512-32x32.jpg stomach Archives - Steps to Life https://www.stepstolife.org/tag/stomach/ 32 32 Restoring the Temple – The Digestive System https://www.stepstolife.org/article/restoring-the-temple-the-digestive-system/ Wed, 08 Jan 2020 02:09:51 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=18868 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.

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]]> Food – Gatekeepers to the Stomach https://www.stepstolife.org/article/food-gatekeepers-to-the-stomach/ Mon, 03 Dec 2018 23:04:11 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=10794 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.

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]]> Restoring the Temple – Improper Eating https://www.stepstolife.org/article/restoring-the-temple-improper-eating/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 23:49:32 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=9831 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.

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]]> Restoring the Temple: Physiology of Digestion https://www.stepstolife.org/article/restoring-the-temple-physiology-of-digestion/ Mon, 01 Oct 2018 23:26:35 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=9792 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.

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]]> Health – Chew, Chew and Chew Some More! https://www.stepstolife.org/article/health-chew-chew-chew/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:28:25 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=6551 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.

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]]> The Digestion Process https://www.stepstolife.org/article/digestion-stomach/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:45:49 +0000 https://www.stepstolife.org/?post_type=article&p=4634 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.

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