How do you recognise a healthly poo and a not healthy one?!


Question: shape,size,consistency,colour,smell. This is a serious question please.


Answers: shape,size,consistency,colour,smell. This is a serious question please.

You need the Bristol Stool Scale to compare and record over a time period

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Sto...

if it floats you have a healthy intake of fibre

A healthy poo generally has leg warmers and trainers on

I need to go so hold on a tick

It should be easily passed, you should not be straining, midbrown in colour, firm in texture ie not hard not runny, no smell. If it smells alot then you've got bowel issues.

her off the telly who did you are what you eat said a healthy poo shouldn't smell to bad! yuk

On Oprah, i remember that dr. she always bring say that it should be "S" shaped, mine is as straight as a stick :(

Healthy ones definitely float, any that sink are not

If you exercise regularly, if you chew your food properly,
then you find you poo floats on water in the commode.
Floating poo denotes two things i.e. it is fresh and it is
well digested. Ofcourse after a while water from commode
gets absorbed in the poo and it sinks but immediately on
getting discharged from the body it should float. Further
the poo should be lightly brownish/yelllowish in colour. The
consistency should be like a ripe banana. Also if you are a
vegetarian you will find your poo does not have that
offensive smell which will be seen the day you consume
nonvegetarian food. The poo which is broken in pieces and
black in colour smells awfully and does not float is a sign of
improper digestion etc., Lastly even if some hot heads may
argue that presence of gas makes poo float and therefore
it is a bad sign is a wrong conception. Experiment and see
for yourself to find poo floating and sinking. Hope this
satisfies your quest for healthy poo. By the way some also
say that shape S and C of poo is a good sign which cannot
be noticed unless you do it on the ground like when you go
hiking to see if it is S and C in shape.

unhealthy- really bad smell than the usual, loose, blood in the poo, hard stool, floating fat after flushing the toilet

healthy does not have any of the above





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