Your Digestive System

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Mouth
Throat
Esophagus
Stomach
Small Intestine
Colon (Large Intestine)
Rectum
Anus

Your digestive system is uniquely designed to turn the food you eat into nutrients, which the body uses for energy, growth and cell repair. Here’s how it works.

Mouth

The mouth is the begi…[Read more]

Humans, like all animals, use holozoic nutrition, which consists of these stages:

 ingestion
 – taking large pieces of food into the body

 digestion
 – breaking down the food by mechanical and chemical means

 absorption
 – taking up the soluble digestion products into the body’s cells

 assimilation
 – using the absorbed materia…[Read more]

DIGESTION

Humans, like all animals, use holozoic nutrition, which consists of these stages:

 ingestion
 – taking large pieces of food into the body

 digestion
 – breaking down the food by mechanical and chemical means

 absorption
 – taking up the soluble digestion products into the body’s cells…[Read more]