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Your food goes down your "esophagus" (food tube) and not your "trachea" (breathing tube) because when you eat you do not breathe.Try it.See?You can never breathe when you eat because on top of your trachea is a little flap called the "epiglottis" (flap).When you can't breathe or when you eat the "epiglottis" (flap) closes so that way the food can't get down the "trachea" (breathing tube).

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