The Digestive System
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Digestive System Health
The saliva in your mouth contains enzymes that begin digesting food. You can prove this by doing your own experiment...take a couple of containers of yogurt, apple sauce, or jello for example. Take a scoop full from one container with a CLEAN spoon, and eat the spoonful if you like, then put the same USED spoon, which will now have some of your saliva on it, in the other container and eat the same amount. Put on the lids, and put in the refrigerator. The next day open the containers, and you'll see that the one you tainted with the USED spoon is beginning to break down, or liquify...be digested...by the enzymes that are in your saliva. The food goes to the stomach where it is "churned" by the muscles in the stomach and receives more enzymes from the pancreas & liver, depending upon the foods you are eating. Then the liquified "food" makes it's way into the small intestine where all the nutrients are absorbed to be used by the body. And that's where we'll stop the process, to be picked up sometime when we look at the intestinal system. Some herbal foods the benefit the digestive system are as follows, please contact me using the form below if you would like FACT SHEETS about any of these:
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Updated 9/2/10
