I never did understand why I need to eat roughage.\u00a0 Naomi explained it to me.<\/p>\n
Food is digested in the stomach but roughage is not \u2013 these undigested carbohydrates pass through the small intestine (where sugars and glucose and fuel is absorbed into the body) until they reach the large intestine.\u00a0 This is where most vitamins and minerals and some medicines are absorbed and without roughage to help travel the stuff through the system and slow it down, this absorption cannot happen.<\/p>\n
The large intestine is also home to trillions of ‘good’ bacteria that feed on the undigested food that enters it.\u00a0 And why is that good?\u00a0 Because the good bacteria produce vitamins K and B12 and assist with absorption of other water soluble vitamins and keep the bad bacteria in check and they soften the roughage so that it can pass out of the body.<\/p>\n
So my question is:<\/p>\n
Is it possible that I could become malnourished even though I consume the right amount of vitamins – if I did not take in roughage along with the vitamins?\u00a0 That roughage is the delivery system, the train.\u00a0 Without roughage the vitamin c would simply whoosh through and – as the scietists put it – I would just pee it out?\u00a0 WIth roughage, such as eating a whole orange, everything moves though the system at a more decorous pace giving time for the parcels of vitamins to be handed over to the body?<\/p>\n
\u00a0OK… more than a question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I never did understand why I need to eat roughage.\u00a0 Naomi explained it to me. Food is digested in the stomach but roughage is not \u2013 these undigested carbohydrates pass through the small intestine (where sugars and glucose and fuel is absorbed into the body) until they reach the large intestine.\u00a0 This is where most … Continue reading a more decorous pace<\/span>