Most of us have a few choice words to describe our bodily waste, none of which, while graphic, carry much information. But Stool Watchers are different. They watch, and they soon become very capable of interpreting the message left in the bowl. Stools that sink like lead are a warning sign. If your stool floats score a point for the presence of fiber and adequate fluids.
Shape is part of the language of the bowel too.
Pencil shaped, string bean and rabbit food pellets are red flags signaling warning. These shapes indicate constrictions and impaction in the colon. Noxious fumes indicate putrefying matter is homesteading in the bowels. The worst smelling stools belong to meat eaters, consumers of grease and fats and highly refined foods and sugars. These foods tend to stay longer, and sometimes permanently in the intestinal track where they decay, putrefy and poison the body.