A desperately sad survey last week revealed that the majority of women deplore their husbands' physical habits - the squalid behaviour with which, apparently, most men humiliate and disgust their female partners; from the excavating and disposing of small personal waste products to the whole gamut of digestive sound effects.
"God, I can't say the truth, which is McVitie's digestives, because that sounds boring.
Thus the digestive system has, well, sound effects, and the stomach also talks to young visitors, who feed it by pulling a lever and watching a screen fill with different foods.
Or are the noises related to something else altogether? A. The rumbling or growling sounds of the digestive tract, which scientists call by the very expressive word borborygmi, represent the muscular contractions and expansions of peristalsis, the process that moves the contents of the stomach and intestines onward and downward.
It is considered to be more physiologically sound by preserving the continuity of the digestive tract with the duodenum and theoretically maintaining autocrine and paracrine signaling and feedback mechanisms [ 31- 34].
However, this is not as simple as it sounds because suddenly providing an abundance of food causes digestive problems and is likely to trigger potentially serious health issues such as colic or laminitis.
The food is disastrous to Western digestive tracts, there are cows everywhere, people have names that sound funny or naughty when Americans mangle their pronunciation, some of the men are sexually frustrated and some of the women need assertiveness training.
Walking through it, I was bombarded by the sounds of blood flowing and more gurgling, the worm's digestive system.
Digestive tracts seem to exist in order to digest food.
