About the Digestive System!

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About the Digestive System! About the Digestive System! The digestive system process starts before you take a bite! The digestive system is the groups of organs that break down and absorb food. Food is our fuel for our body like how the car needs its fuel for energy. Foods give nutrients for our bodies cell which will give them energy and substances, they need to operate or work with. But before that happens, it must be taken in to a digestion process which indeed takes a long time. The beginning of the process starts when you see and smell food, your mouth, begins to water or make saliva. The saliva will help to break down the molecules in your food because it has a special chemical. Following the saliva come the main organs that are in the system. Once you take a bite, the food will be grinded into smaller and smaller pieces. When your teeth and salvia have made the food soft and easy to swallow, your tongue pushes it back of your esophagus to be swallowed. Then the esophagus pushes the food to the stomach, and that’s when things really start to happen! The pancreas which are the two organs in the digestive system, make digestive juices and the juices help digest food breaking –down protein, carbohydrates ,and fat. Every 24 hours, the pancreas sends 1 to 2 pints of digestive enzymes through the pancreatic duct into the duodenum. After the pancreas, comes the liver which is used to dissolve fat and break down even more. From the stomach the food travels through the small intestine, which transfers water and nutrients into the blood and then other parts of the body. The liver processes the nutrients and decides where they will be sent in the body. It filters out all the waste harmful substances, some are which are made into digestive juices. Finally whatever is waste and cannot be digested moves through the large intestine. When the body has taken

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