Close-up of woman's hands slicing boiled beets on wooden cutting board with a knife at home kitchen. After you eat beets, you may get a shock when visiting the restroom: Your poop looks slightly pink, ...

World Toilet Day — that's today, Nov. 19 — is no joke. (Although clearly the German toilets pictured above have a sense of humor.) This day in honor of the loo was created by Jack Sim, a Singapore ...

Source: By Rick Kimpel - Flickr: Parker the Marker, CC BY-SA 2.0. Wikimedia I’ve spent many years researching and thinking about the ethical contours of human-dog relationships, especially the ...

If you’ve ever feasted on a delicious beet salad at dinner, you may have gotten a surprise the next morning: a reddish tinge to what you left in the bowl. This color shift might look a little like ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BOISE, Idaho — Some litter is obvious — plastic bottles, beer cans and cigarette butts stick out like sore thumbs on the side of a trail. But what about the ...

Unborn babies can poop in the womb. They pass a substance called meconium, which goes into the amniotic fluid. If a baby ingests meconium on delivery, it can have health consequences. Meconium is the ...

After 84 years of wondering what makes the world go around, universally, I’ve worked it down to just four elements that connect us all: eat, drink, poop and pee. Yes, those are the bodily functions ...

Consuming beets can cause a person to pass red-hued stool or urine. This is due to the presence of betalain pigments in beets. Betanin is a strong antioxidant present in each cell in the beetroot. It ...

Whales are among the largest living creatures on Earth — as such, they generate enormous quantities of pee and poop. And that's a good thing, as their waste provides critical nutrients for a variety ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A couple of Los Angeles families woke up to ...