Your Growling Guts and Dynamic Digestive System

Your Growling Guts and Dynamic Digestive System — page 3
S GROWLING GUTS BRILLIANT BODY FACT Did you realize that you are basically hollow There's a tube running RIGHT THROUGH your body It starts in your mouth and finishes at your bottom The tube is your digestive system Foods and drinks go in one end and something much less pleasant comes out of the other In your lifetime your stomach digests nearly 1ooooo meals Is it really just a tube Not really no When you started life it was a nutrients are used for energy movement growth and repair of damaged parts Having gotten as much useful material as possible from your food your digestive system also gets rid of anything that isn't needed tube But as your body grew your digestive system became more complicated It developed muscular walls for moving food downward It widened in places to form your stomach and large intestine Little valves appeared to stop food from traveling the wrong way through the system It also BUT TRUE T STRANGE BUT developed loops of tube that link to your circulatory system An average person from a wealthy country eats roughly 110 231 pounds 50 tons of food that s 25 adult white rhinos during his or her lifetime He or she also drinks about 13 208 gallons 50 000 L of fluid What is a digestive system for Your digestive system takes nutrients from food and passes them on to your circulatory system for distribution to cells around the body These