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There are three steps to swallowing food effienctly .
1) During the first stage of swallowing, your tongue moves the food around your mouth so that it can be chewed. Chewing helps to break food down into smaller chunks, while mixing it with saliva. Saliva makes the food moist and easier to swallow.
2)Your tongue pushes food or liquid to the back of your mouth. The nervous system triggers the swallowing reflex, activating the muscles that push the food down your throat towards your oesophagus (tube running from the throat to the stomach). During this phase, the larynx (voice box) closes in order to prevent any food or liquid from entering your lungs.3)Food or liquid enters your oesophagus. In a healthy person, muscles quickly move the food or liquid through the oesophagus and into the stomach.
Angie Heaney
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Where does food goes after chewing?
Down your throat in back of your mouth - AHH!
Why should you stop talking when chewing and swallowing?
because otherwise the food which you are chewing/swallowing could go down pharynx (throat) rather than the glottis.
What thing in the mouth directs chewed food down the tube located in the throat?
what makes sure your food goes own the esophagus and not the windpipe?
Where is the polar ice located?
Down your throat and out the other end!
What are the risk of teens using chewing tobacco?
That they will become addicted to nicotine, continue to chew or use snuff, and develop various forms of oral and throat cancer down the line.
How are enzyems and chewing different?
enzymes and chewing are part of your mouth
How does water get down your throat?
It goes down your throat and in to your intestines until it reaches your bladder.
How does food get from the mouth to the throat?
your tongue pushes it down your throat
What directs chewed food down the food tube located in the throat?
uvulaThere are three steps to swallowing food effienctly .1) During the first stage of swallowing, your tongue moves the food around your mouth so that it can be chewed. Chewing helps to break food down into smaller chunks, while mixing it with saliva. Saliva makes the food moist and easier to swallow.2)Your tongue pushes food or liquid to the back of your mouth. The nervous system triggers the swallowing reflex, activating the muscles that push the food down your throat towards your oesophagus (tube running from the throat to the stomach). During this phase, the larynx (voice box) closes in order to prevent any food or liquid from entering your lungs.3)Food or liquid enters your oesophagus. In a healthy person, muscles quickly move the food or liquid through the oesophagus and into the stomach.
Why can't you swallow down the right side of my throat?
you need to reword your question you said "Why cant YOU swallow down the right side of MY throat? well no one can swallow down YOUR throat.
How do you deal with itchy throat?
Stick your finger down your throat and itch it.
What do chewing and the action of bile have in common in the digestive system?
They both break down a certain thing. Bile breaks down fats while chewing breaks down carbohydrates in simple sugar
