Moving your bowels means to poop. If you said "yuck," you're not
alone. Most people don't want to discuss going poop. But moving
your bowels is an important body function, so it's good to know
what's normal and what's not. Your bowels, also called the large
intestine (say: in-tess-tin), are the lower parts of your
digestive system. Your intestines finish the process of
digesting food — a process that starts in your mouth and stomach
and ends with you going to the bathroom. About 2 quarts (1.9
liters) of food and liquids pass through your body each day.
They can stay for several days in your bowels, where your body
absorbs water and salts. As water is absorbed, the digested food
gets more solid and becomes a bowel movement (poop). Many people
think that normal means having one bowel movement every day, but
that's not always true. People are different, and so are their
bowels. Normal for one person might be three bowel movements a
day, and normal for another might be three bowel movements a
week. If your bowel