what stops food from sliding up from your stomach when your standing your head
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take the comlete food.
The mouth, you eat food with them in.
The epiglottis is the flap that prevents food and water from entering the trachea.
Talking with your mouth full is foremost a social no-no. Talking with your mouth full gives those you are talking to a eyeful of your half-chewed food, a sight that many find distasteful. Furthermore it is difficult to speak clearly with your mouth full of food. This leads to mumbling, garbled words, and crumbs and food particles being sprayed out of your mouth. There is at least one health-related reason not to talk with your mouth full. It could cause you to choke, since by talking you open up your windpipe, which food might accidentally go down, causing you to choke.
Believe it or not, it keeps food cold! Hints in the name.
Peristalsis, its pretty much just twitches in your esophagus that make waves to keep it down, does always work though.
There is a valve called the Cardiac Sphincter at the top of the stomach that keeps food from coming back out of the mouth.
The tongue is a muscle which pushes food to the back of the mouth, where it the food is then swallowed.
Organ at back of the mouth where food and air may pass.
By eating it through your mouth and a tube like thing.
It's called saliva.
Tongue
The salivary glands secrete saliva into the mouth. Saliva has much importance to survival, because it begins to break down food, as part of the digestive system, and it keeps the esophagus lubricated when food goes down. Saliva also keeps the mouth clean, because it flushes out bacteria.
The tongue pushes food to the back of the mouth.
It takes about 4 to 10 seconds to travel down the tracehea because of the mucus keeps the food moist and it travels down in a slippery sliding motion.
That would be the esophagus.
Down your throat in back of your mouth - AHH!