Normal Digestion
(Left to Right)
8 am.
Breakfast in stomach immediately after ingestion.
12 Noon
Breakfast four hours after ingestion.Food has reached the ileum and ileo-cecal valve. Digestion and absorption are completed and the unused residue is ready to be passed into the colon.
1pm
Breakfast residue passing through the ileo-cecal valve into the colon. Lunch is now in the stomach.
5 pm
Breakfast residue in the colon. Lunch residue is ready to enter the colon.
6 pm
Breakfast residue is mostly in desending colon.Lunch residue passing into the colon-mixing with breakfast residue. Dinner just eaten and in the stomach.
9 pm
Breakfast residue is in sigmoid colon, ready to be discharged. Lunch residue is in ascending and transverse colon. Dinner residue is ready to enter the colon.
10 pm
Breakfast residue discharged (bowel movement at bedtime). Lunch residue moving through colon. Dinner residue waiting to enter colon.
6 am
Morning of second day.Breakfast is in stomach. Bowel has completely evacuated in preparation for new series of meals.
6:30 am
Second day. Half hour after rising, immediately after bowel movement. Residue of previous night’s dinner left in the colon.
8 am
Second Day. Breakfast in stomach. Bowels have completely evacuated in preparation of the new series of meals
Images 11 & 12
Indicate the impacted condition similar to that of a garbage impactor. 80% of the American population suffers from this condition without knowing it. This condition is the beginning of many serious health problems. Image 11 shows what it looks like when your bowels move only once a day, containing residue of six meals. Image 12 shows chronic constipation, showing nine or more meals held back.
Six X-ray images taken by Dr,. Norman W. Walker of seemingly healthy individuals. Through improper diet, stress, constipation and prolonged use of certain medications our colons can become distorted, making elimination of fecal matter very difficult.
