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If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once?

How does it work that we eat few times a day, but usually we poop only once?

Is the colon somehow programmed to buffer the waste until the time is up and then dumps it all further?

Got this thought when observing my dog who eats twice a day (morning and evening) and more or less poops twice a day (morning and evening).

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  • I don't usually eat more than once or maybe twice a day but often still take more than one shit.

    Everyone's bowels are bitty different.

  • So my kids poop 1-2 times a day, normally lunch time then evening time.

    My partner is once a day.

    I'm more like 2-3 times a day, normally morning and then just before bedtime.

  • I would guess (without knowing for sure) that it's because your body absorbs a part of the food, so you poop out less mass than you eat.

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