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Editor's note
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There are few things more relieving then knowing your bowels are in good nick (because let’s be honest, they do a pretty good job of telling us when they’re not). I apologise if this is too much information for a Saturday morning, but this week at The Conversation we learnt some fascinating things about our number twos. For example, did you know each week the average person produces between 500 and 1,100 grams of poo? Or that less than 40% of healthy people poo once a day? In our latest We Asked Five Experts piece, we got to the bottom of one of life’s great mysteries: do we have to poo every day? All five experts said no, with gastroenterologist Dan Worthley even saying, “three times a day and three times a week is what I like to call the ‘Goldilocks zone for pooing’.”
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Molly Glassey
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The Goldilocks rule of pooing says you should go between three times a day and three times a week.
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Alexandra Hansen, The Conversation
All experts agreed there's nothing to worry about if you don't go every day.
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