It is not like me to ask yucky questions - but I'm interested in the answer. When you go to the loo (the bathroom, my US friends) you are removing waste from your body. Do you think there's anyway of designing a diet of food and liquids that is so perfect for your needs that there'll never be any waste. Hence no need to go to the loo again?
2006-08-04
16:34:29
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2006-08-04
16:41:32 ·
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Latina - you haven't been on here long, but do us all a favour - don't leave nasty answers. If you think a question is stupid, move on to another. I think my question is quite a reasonable one - sorry that I don't have a Phd in Biology, otherwise I'd already know.
2006-08-04
16:46:05 ·
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Just to be clear - this is not something I intend to try. Just interested biologically. And the anwers I'm getting are informative (mostly).
2006-08-04
16:51:07 ·
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Funandgames - thank you! I am not completely deranged, then??!!
2006-08-04
22:45:54 ·
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Effectively there IS a diet like this, or very close to it - I was in hospital at one point for quite a serious condition, and I wasn't able to eat. They hooked me up to a gastro-nasal tube up my nose and down my throat into my stomach (not nice, don't try it unless you need to). That was attached to a drip feed, which is basically exactly what you describe - essential nutrients and fats to keep you alive while you can't consume anything else. Eventually, if you were on this drip long enough, there would probably be some waste, but in the 8 to ten weeks I relied on it, I don't ever remember "going" if you see what I mean.
Fluids are a different matter. The waste HAS to be eliminated in order for your kidneys etc to keep functioning. The only way to aviod peeing, Im afraid, is to be catheterised (and I don't recommend that much either).
What you ask isn't a stupid question, curiousity is good. If no-one asked these sort of questions, society wouldn't advance.
2006-08-04 22:44:22
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answered by justasiam29 5
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No, I'm afraid it's not possible. Even if the diet were absolutely perfectly balanced, the natural waste products of metabolism would need to be eliminated from the body lest they become toxic. Also, I read a study once that found that human feces is approximately 1/3 dead bacteria [bacteria which have lost the battle to your immune system and are now being eliminated from the system].
So you see, the waste material that we eliminate on a daily basis has a great many more sources than just the waste products caused by digestion.
2006-08-04 16:42:58
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answered by Anonymous
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well, that is an interesting question. However, the answer is no. Sure you can create a diet for yourself that would slow the process of going to the "loo" as frequently as you normally would, but it would be just a matter of time before you started feeling sick. Going to the bathroom is our bodies way of cleansing the toxins out of our body. Our liquid input equals our liquid output, but, with food, our body uses what it needs then rids itself of all of the excess.If you changed your diet, say you cut back on food, your body would eventually adjust to that amount of nutrients and then no matter the amount or what you ate, there would be some amount of excess that your body would need to get rid of.
2006-08-04 16:56:27
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answered by wizardburg28 3
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This can not be a serious question. Of course not, It does not matter what you eat, no matter how healthy or unhealthy. There is no food that is pure vitamin or nutrition, same with drinks. Even the most healthy foods such as grapefruit, fish, and even mountain spring water have access ingredients in them besides what your body takes in. And thus you have boul movements, (poo) That would be a great convenience for us all though, I wish it could be possible. But as long as you eat you will visit the loo quite frequently Good luck trying
2006-08-04 16:47:48
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answered by Mark T 1
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Great question, tricky to answer how about Newtons third law Matter cannot be created or destroyed, just changed, the matter in food is an energy source used by your body them changed into a product that has to be excreted (excretion is a life process that all living things must do) Just like a car turns hydrocarbons into carbon and monoxide waste. Hope that helps.
2006-08-04 16:43:38
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answered by aniMALuVA 2
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No matter what the food is it will have some mass and if you drink 2 litres of what ever liquid the body wont absorb it all. So what abt the rest? U wanna keep it inside?
Living beings do have to go to loo no matter what.
2006-08-04 16:40:52
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answered by syd_guy 3
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Interesting question.
It is possible for the human body to be fed a diet such that it does not excrete solids.
As regards liquids, not possible as far as I am aware.
The body takes whatever it needs from the liquid it is fed, it requires liquid in order to survive, after it removes the essentials it passes the waste liquid out of the body.
Hope this satisfies your curiousity.
2006-08-04 16:41:39
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answered by Stuart G 2
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You would have to eat something or drink something that the body uses completely and not have anything the body does not need to get rid of. Even water gets rotated. Since you cannot live without water - the answer is no.
2006-08-04 16:42:31
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answered by Kerry Z 3
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The short answer is no. The water in urine carries away impurities from the body. I don't know if these impurities are in the food we eat or if they're produced in the body, but we need to get rid of them. The fibre that is in some foods is not digested, but it is important for healthy bowel movements to have fibre in your diet.
2006-08-04 16:42:39
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answered by David S 5
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I am not thinking so. Our bodies do have to rid themselves of various things, it is the body's way of cleansing itself and that is what helps keep us healthy.
Keep in mind we do have perfect foods. Fruits and veggies are perfect, especially if you grow them on your own. There are no preservatives or anything, they are the food of nature.
If you raise your own livestock, the meat is perfect because you will probably corn feed them and not inject them with hormones and things.
No matter how perfect the food is, our bodies still have the need to rid themselves of whatever it is that it cannot use
2006-08-04 16:45:07
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answered by HappyCat 7
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