The Digestive System

 

 

         

 

 
 
 


Digestive System Health

 

Here is where EVERYTHING that goes into your mouth begins it's process of being broken down or digested, the good separated from the bad through the miracle of the digestive system.  Organs involved include your mouth, stomach, pancreas, and liver.  The intestinal system will be covered separately.


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.

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Updated 4/17/08