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It depends on the type of food you are eating and what is in it. Carbohydrates are processed fairly quickly but fats and proteins can take several hours to be digested.
That is a reason people feel that when trying to lose weight, you should eat less carbohydrate foods (bread, cakes, cookies, fruits, pulpy vegetables) and eat more food with fat and protein such as fish, chicken,meats)
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What is digestive system of lion?
In the digestive system of a lion, the organs are 24 feet long. Food in their digestive system digests very quick, even meat.
Why do koalas have a really long and complicated digestive system and why does it take them so long to digest their food?
Koalas have a really long and complicated digestive system because they only eat Leaves( Eucalyptus Leaves mainly), and these leaves contain toxins which allows their digestive system to take a longer amount of time to break down the food and digest.
How does digestive system help you?
The digestive system processes food that is put into your body. The digestive system processes the food by breaking it down and absorbing the nutrients.
What is the digestive?
The digestive system is the system that makes food absorbable into the body
What does the digestive system breakdown?
your digestive system beaks down food.
How does the muscular system help the digestive system?
The digestive system has smooth muscle through out it, and they help move the food.
How does the digestive system work with the digestive system?
The urinary system flushes out unusable chemicals that are extracted from the food by the digestive system.
How does the digestive system move food through itself?
Muscle motion in your digestive system called Peristalsis helps the food to travel through your digestive system.
What effects the digestive system?
digestive is to digest but the digestive system is a system of digestion.
Where in the digestive system physically crush food?
The teeth in mouth in the digestive system are where food is crushed physically.
What is the system that breaks down and absorbs food?
The first task of the digestive system is to break down food into a fine pulp (mechanical digestion). When the food is physically broken down, digestive chemicals break the food down into small molecules (chemical digestion). The mouth is the organ in which the process of digestion begins.(Google)
What is the digestive system and what is its function?
the digestive system helps digest food and it is an ORGAN system
