A healthy bowel movement schedule ranges from a few times a day to a few times a week. See a healthcare provider if your ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer “Ghost poops” are essentially poops that seem to disappear in the toilet, leaving no trace in ...

Your body gives you many cues that something is wrong, and one of the most underrated of these indicators is your bowel ...

Medically reviewed by Suzanne Fisher, RD Whether you need a fiber supplement depends on your health needs, your diet, and ...

Your number two reveals a lot about you. Here's what your time on the toilet says about your health, according to gastroenterologists. Lara Vukelich is a freelance writer in San Diego, California.

If you feel like you have to use half the roll of toilet paper after you have a bowel movement, chances are you may have an underlying health condition. Ideally, wiping after a bowel movement ...

Sean Gibbons, a microbiologist at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, joins The Excerpt to discuss what bowel movements, or a lack of them, reveal about our health. Hit play on the ...

However, this statistic isn’t particularly surprising, as only 1 in 20 Americans regularly eat the recommended amount of 22 ...

Constipation is a “feeling that you haven’t completely emptied your bowels, feeling like you’re passing hard stools, or that you’re straining too hard to pass a bowel movement,” says ...