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Acids in the stomach digest your food. Sweat keeps you cool when you are hot. (No I don't mean sexy, the other kind of hot! LOL)

yeah and also the sweat gets rid of any oils and stuff on your body and acts as a defence mechanism because it stops any harmful bacteria/virus' getting into the body

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