Amy GregoryI'll have to start getting on FB every day again :-)
   And yes - that was actually quite fasctinating. I, too, am glad
   I'm not a rat. Thankfully, our intestines are able to absorb
   those nutrients unlike rats... and also explains why the whole
   fiber question has been such a difficult one for food scientists
   to figure out: they can't test it on rats, because that's a
   feature that differs between rats and people. I wasn't aware of
   the poop eating situation but it cleared up something I had
   wondered when I was engaged in nutrition research :) - thank
   you!! "