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what stops food from sliding up from your stomach when your standing your head
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Chrissi Snuggs
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How technology keeps us healthy?
take the comlete food.
Where do nutrients enter the body?
The mouth, you eat food with them in.
What keeps food masses from entering the respiratory system?
The epiglottis is the flap that prevents food and water from entering the trachea.
Why should you not talk while your mouth is full?
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.
Why is your freezer full of frost?
Believe it or not, it keeps food cold! Hints in the name.
What process keeps food from sliding back up into your mouth as you stand on your head?
Peristalsis, its pretty much just twitches in your esophagus that make waves to keep it down, does always work though.
Why don't you throw up when doing a handstand?
There is a valve called the Cardiac Sphincter at the top of the stomach that keeps food from coming back out of the mouth.
What helps push food down to the back of the mouth where it is swallowed?
The tongue is a muscle which pushes food to the back of the mouth, where it the food is then swallowed.
What is the watery liquid that keeps your mouth moist?
Saliva is the watery liquid that keeps your mouth moist. It is produced by the salivary glands and helps with digestion by breaking down food and keeping the mouth clean.
What is the organ at the back of the mouth that allows passage of food and air?
Organ at back of the mouth where food and air may pass.
What keeps food from going in the nose?
By eating it through your mouth and a tube like thing.
What is a fluid that keeps the mouth moist and makes food soft and wet when chewing?
It's called saliva.
What helps push the food to the back of the mouth where it is swallowed?
Tongue
What do salvary glands do?
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.
Which organs muscles move food back into the pharynx?
The tongue pushes food to the back of the mouth.
Organ that mixes food in the mouth and initiates swallowing?
The organ responsible for mixing food in the mouth and initiating swallowing is the tongue. It helps move food around in the mouth to mix it with saliva and then pushes the food to the back of the mouth to start the swallowing process.
What helps push food down the back of your mouth?
That would be the esophagus.
