When food passes through the colon, water is absorbed to transform the food waste into feces.
If food passes too quickly through your colon it is not absorbed. If food passes too slowly through your colon it backs your system up.
If food passes too slowly through your colon, you are constipated. If food passes too quickly through your colon, you have diarrhea. If you have either of these symptoms for a long period of time, you should contact your doctor.
the food passes through
it goes to your stomach
It will come out of the anus as feces.
The colon is an organ that is made from many different types of tissue.
it comes out the other end
The shrimp's food passes through its brain on the way to its stomach. This happens because the shrimp's brain and esophagus are connected.
Digestion is completed and absorbed into the bloodstream
The volume of the undigested food decreases as it passes through the large intestine. As the colon absorbs excess water from undigested food waste, the volume of that waste decreases.
Nothing. Food doesn't pass through the anus. Waste passes through the anus.
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