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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Digestive system report

Digestive system report

Have you ever thought about where the food you eat goes?


The digestive system is made up of the gastrointestinal tract—also called the GI tract or
digestive tract—and the liver, pancreas, and gallbladder. The hollow organs that make up the
GI tract are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, and anus.


Here are 3 points on the digestive system:

1. Digestion Is Important for Your Health

While you know that food is important for sustenance, you may not know that digestion is the
process that turns food into energy and nutrients. Digestion is especially important for nutrition,
energy, and cell repair.

2. Your Stomach Doesn't Play the Biggest Role in Digestion

The stomach begins the digestion process by churning food and breaking it down using digestive
acids. This is referred to as mechanical digestion. Then, the small intestine does most of the
work of digestion using enzymes and absorbing nutrients for the body to use.

3. You Can Eat Upside Down.

Food doesn't need gravity to reach your stomach. When you eat something, the muscles in
your esophagus constrict and relax in a wavelike manner, which is called peristalsis and pushes
food along the esophagus and into the stomach. It's difficult to eat upside down, but it's possible.



These 3 reasons are; Digestion is important for your help, your stomach
doesn’t play the biggest role in digestion, and you can eat upside down.
These reasons are explaining things that you might have never known.

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