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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do you think all those powders added to our food are laxatives?
I know of gutter oil, which I assume would have really negative affect on your body, probably diarrhea, vomiting, etc. However I feel since coming to China my bowel movements are ridiculous. Not unpredictable or uncontrollable. Just big. I drink a lot of green tea and eat a lot of vegetables and try to exercise daily. Has anyone else experienced rather large bowel movements since coming to China.
11 years 2 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
I believe it is all the vegetable/canola oils and chemicals they use in the food. Vegetable and canola oils are inflammatory to the body, and it's well known that additives like MSG have bad side effects. Some say that it is the lack of hygiene, but I don't think that is the whole story.
I have lot of different troubles when I am eating common chinese food, even from my wife cooked. sometimes big need 2-3times per day, as a basic.
But when I cook Czech dishes on the weekend, my body gets better for a while. but during working days, I have limited time and lazy to cook everyday food for my next day lunch , so eating outisde common again :(
Hmmm, bowel movements; their general size and girth is a matter of great interest to me also. Mine, I find, tend to be Herculean, causing me to stand up in order to allow a full extraction, my mind sometimes conjuring images pertaining to an almost Biblical battle between good and evil as it staggers to weigh the behemoth unleashed from my bowels. Beethoven's 7th stirs majestically in the netherworlds of my consciousness in the moments of these movements, and somewhat ironically in fact as it is generally at around 7 that such movements take place.
But is it the powders? God only knows. Personally I blame the beer.