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What's left of the food goes into your large intestine. And guess what? It's about 15 feet shorter than the small intestine. Ironic, huh? But at three to four inches around, it's wider ...

With every bite of food we take, our intestinal immune system must make a big decision. Tasked with defending us from foreign pathogens, these exquisitely sensitive cells somehow distinguish ...

Partially digested food arrives in the intestine from the stomach. Digested food is absorbed in the small intestine. This means that it passes through the wall of the small intestine and into the ...

Excess amounts of this protein, RELMb, changes the profile of intestinal microbes in a way that cause the body not to tolerate certain triggering foods, finds a new study from Boston Children's ...

There is still very little research on the effects of thickeners on the digestive tract. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority ...

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According to a lawsuit filed this month in Baltimore County Circuit Court, the woman spent four days in a hospital with an inflamed small intestine — unable to eat anything during her hospitalization.