Learn About The Digestive System

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Portal for nutrients

When you eat, your body digests the food so your cells can use it to make energy. Acids and enzymes eat away at the surface of food to break it down. The small intestine is where food is broken down into molecules tiny enough for the body cells to use. In the villi are tiny tubes that carry blood called VESSELS. Food molecules are taken into these blood vessels. Once the food is in the blood, it can travel all over the body.

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Fundamental Physiology and Anatomy of the Digestive System 

Simply put, the digestive system is a portal for nutrients from the environment to gain access to the circulatory system.
Before such transfer can occur, foodstuffs first have to be reduced to very simple molecules by a combination of mechanical and enzymatic degradation. The resulting sugars, amino acids, fatty acids and the like are then transported across the epithelium lining the intestine into bloo

 

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Guts: Our Digestive System

Guts: Our Digestive System

by: Seymour Simon

Amazon Price: $14.03 (as of 11/10/2009) Buy Now

What Happens to a Hamburger? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

What Happens to a Hamburger? (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)

by: Paul Showers

In this newly illustrated book, complete with photos, Paul Showers and Edward Miller take you on a journey through the human digestive system into the mouth, down the gullet, into the stomach, and finally into the small and large intestines. You will learn what each of these body parts does to help transform the food you eat. And you will also find out what happens to the food your body cannot use.

Everything that happens inside your body whenever you swallow a bite of food will amaze you!

Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 11/10/2009) Buy Now

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Digestive System
The average male will eat about 50 tons of food (during his lifetime!) in order to sustain a weight of 150 lbs.
The Real Deal on the Digestive System
Learn how your body breaks down the food you eat in this article about the digestive system.
Your Gross and Cool Body - Digestive System
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When you drink plenty of water, your digestive system is able to run much more smoothly. Many health problems can be at least partially traced to your digestive tract, and the easiest, best way to increase your digestive health is to drink plenty of pure water

 

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