In the stomach, food tends to hang around for a little longer and this depends on a variety of factors including the amount of food you have consumed, how much fat it contains, and also the acidity of the stomach. However, all food should have left the stomach within 2 to 4 hours.
Many factors can affect body temperature. Illness, Disease and Trauma. Fever can be caused by infection or illness; this is the bodyâs way of fighting the infection. Certain diseases, such as arthritis, hyperthyroidism and leukemia may also cause elevated body temperature.
As a result, this causes higher body temperatures leading to overheated bodies. Investigations on the influence of overheating on breathing revealed that changes in air temperature, from 17 to about 40 degrees, caused a fall in CO2 pressure from 44 to 33 mmHg for healthy male subjects (Gaudio & Neil, 1968).