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Digestive System

Digestive System. Responsible for taking the food we eat and given your nutrients. A long journey through the digestive tract and transform the food into chemicals. At each point food gets smaller and smaller, so individual cells can take the individual nutrient and used them. .

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Digestive System

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  1. Digestive System • Responsible for taking the food we eat and given your nutrients. • A long journey through the digestive tract and transform the food into chemicals. • At each point food gets smaller and smaller, so individual cells can take the individual nutrient and used them.

  2. Digestive System • In the mouth, teeth, saliva, and tongue, participate in in the breaking up the food into smaller pieces, so the food may be swallowed. • The esophagus, the food tube, his muscles being a squeezing and relaxing movement call PERISTALISIS. It helps to bring the food into the stomach.

  3. Digestive System • Once in the stomach, the muscular walls of the stomach being to churn and turn the food while 35,000,000 in the stomach lining secret HIDROCHLORIC ACID. • The stomach acid and the food mix together and form a thick liquid, called chyme . • After 30 minutes to 3 hours the chyme pass into the small intestine.

  4. Digestive System • Coiled and curly inside the abdomen, the small intestine, also know as small bowels, is actually 9 meters ( 27 feet) long. • When the liquid pass this tube it meets many enzymes, which are special chemicals that complete the digestive process. This enzymes are responsible for breaking down different nutrients into chemicals.

  5. Digestive System • Some Enzymes: • Lipases for fat. • Peptidases for proteins. • Amylases for carbohydrates, and other.

  6. Digestive System • In the presence of glucose, the pancreas secrets insulin. • Insulin allows glucose to enter the individual cells .Once in the cell glucose is the prefered fuel of the body for cell energy.

  7. Digestive System Nutrients are then brought to the liver, stored, and distributed into the blood stream and sent to throughout the body cells to be assimilated, or else directly to the kidney where unused or toxic substance are excreted. Some nutrients: Helps nerve cells send message. Help to rebuild damage tissue after an injury. Help produce warmth in the body. Give energy to make muscles move..

  8. Digestive System • The stomach can hold up 4 liters ( 7 pints) of food and can even stretch to the size of a melon. • If more food is eaten than is needed to maintain the body or burned thought exercise, the body stores it as fat, also now as adipose tissue.

  9. Digestive System • The food not digestive or not use for nutrients is collected in the large intestine (large bowls). • Fiberous material: seeds, fruit skins, whole grains, and poorly chewed feed particles.

  10. Digestive System • What is left are lumps of waste called feces and they pass through the rectum and is excreted through the anus when the movement of the bowels. • Food takes about 18 -48 hours to complete the journey to the digestive track.

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