In recent years, people have started to take health more seriously, but many still ignore the signals their own body sends ...

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer for how often you should poop, but when it comes to what color your stool should be, expert consensus is much narrower. And deviations from it can be a cause for ...

Eating foods with red dye or natural colors can temporarily turn your poop red. Red poop could be a sign of GI bleeding, ...

Different stool colors can mean different things, mostly depending on what you’ve eaten. You’d probably notice if your poop is a different hue than normal. But what does it mean if it’s green? What ...

Roshini Raj, MD, is Health's former magazine's medical editor and coauthor of What the Yuck?!. Board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine, Dr. Raj is a Clinical Associate Professor of ...