Digestive System

"Actually the muscles around your digestive tract help move food through it."

The rhythmic movement of these muscles is technically called peristalsis.

Eat a mixture of food to balance out your digestive system, and to satisfy the hydrochloric acid in your stomach. This food includes: fruit, meat, veg, dairy, sugar and small amount of salt, even though most foods contain natural salt.

As indigestion is caused by acid, the pH value is around 2-4.

No, not in the normal process of digestion.

proteins

- The inner walls of the small intestine have thousands of finger-like outgrowths called villi (singular villus). The villi increase the surface area for absorption of the digested food. Each villus has a network of thin and small blood vessels close to its surface. The surface of the villi absorbs the digested food materials. The absorbed substances are transported via the blood vessels to different organs of the body where they are used to build complex substances such as the proteins required by our body. - As the question goes, what is being absorbed depends upon the food that is being digested, for example * carbohydrates are degraded into simple sugars (e.g., glucose). In the small intestine pancreatic amylase breaks down carbohydrates into oligosaccharides. Brush border enzymes take over from there. The most important brush border enzymes are dextrinase and glucoamylase which further break down oligosaccharides. Other brush border enzymes are maltase, sucrase and lactase.The Small Intestine is the most important part of digestion. - Similarly if it is proteins then it is broken down in to amino acids by a complex process before it enters the blood stream, the reason for this is because only smaller components are able to enter the villi for absorption. rest is taken care in the large intestine as undigested food. dont want to go into that just to stay with the question.

The oesophagus is the tube that takes swallowed food from the mouth to the stomach.

Digestion

Digestion is the process through which food is broken down in one's digestive system. This is done by mechanical means and the release of enzymes in the alimentary canal. The food must be broken into smaller parts or substance so that the body can utilize them.

Products of carbohydrate digestion (simple sugars) and products of protein digestion (amino acids) move through brush border cells, diffuse through the interstitial fluids inside the villus, then enter a capillary. Products of fat digestion (triglycerides) also cross the brush border cell and interstitial fluid, but they enter lymph vessels, which eventually carry them to the blood.

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have severe acid reflex, so I can not eat before going to bed. My doctor tells me that I should not eat for 3 hours before going to bed, so I would say any solid foods are gonna take somewhere around 3 hours. Liquids however are absorbed much more rapidly. I'm not sure if ice cream would be considered a liquid or not given that it melts; it probably would depend on what type and if there are solid particles in it.

Bile serves two functions: to neutralise chyme. This helps digestion, as it provides an optimum pH for enzymes to act on the partially digested food. It also emulsifies fats, which too aids the enzymes.

you will develop diarrhea.

conditions and Diseases

They feed on digested food in your large intestine and anus.

Protein digestion occurs in stomach only because it is safe for the body, as stomach has mucous secretions which prevents self digestion of stomach muscles by PEPSIN (enzyme for protein digestion) :)

because it does hahah.

The major organs of the digestive tract are:

-Mouth/Teeth

-Esophagus

-Stomach

-Small Intestine

-Large Intestine

-Rectum/Anus

The digestive system also has organs that food does not go through. These organs include:

-Liver

-Gallbladder

-Pancreas

As found on http://www.ypte.org.uk/animal/panda-giant-/157, Pandas spend 2/3 of their life eating because they are ill equipped to properly digest the bamboo they favor. They are, natural carnivores, who are too slow to catch prey and have "chosen" to eat bamboo instead, making them functional vegetarians, rather than obligate vegetarians. (Written by seamama59@yahoo.com)

The main functions of the fetal pigs digestive system is to digest food, absord nutrients, and excrete waste.

First, the food enters through the mouth and food is masticated and chewed, while oral juices secreted by oral glands are mixed by the tongue. This juice contains salivary amylase, which primarily breaks down carbohydrates, in forms of sugar and starch, and mucin, which lubricates the food in order for it to go smoothly down the esophagus. After being swallowed, it will roll down to the pharynx, which separates the passageway for food and air. We sometimes choke when food enters the wrong passageway, that is, in the event that food goes down the trachea, or the windpipe. The initial reaction to this is to choke. When food goes into the right path, we go to the esophagus, which us a muscular tube that leads to the stomach. The lubrication of the food by the mucin of the saliva and the peristalsis (wave-like motion of the esophagus to assist the food on going to the stomach smoothly) helps for it to reach the stomach quickly. The stomach is the first chamber of chemical and physical digestion for the food. Internal folds inside the stomach called rugae help in grinding and breaking down the food while the stomach churns. That is the physical digestion part. The chemical digestion kicks in when the gastric juices, secreted by gastric glands found inside the stomach, break down the food. Some of these gastric juices are gastric amylase, which break down carbohydrates, trypsin which breaks down proteins, and lipase which breaks down fat. The technical term used to refer to the food broken down in the stomach is chyme. The chyme, then, is regulated by the phyloric sphincter, a valve which regulates the amount of chyme entering the small intestine. The small intestine is where most of the chemical digestion and absorption occurs. The accessory digestive glands help by secreting juices, such as bile, some hydrochloric acid (HCl) and other enzymes. The nutrients are "absorbed" by finger-like projections called villi. What actually happens, is that the villi contain capillaries, very thin blood vessels, so thin, that red blood cells need to pass through a single file to fit; these capillaries are where the nutrients from the food digested diffuse into. These capillaries then lead to larger blood vessels, and the nutrients are sent to cells via the blood. Now that the essential materials are distributed, the "leftovers" are sent to the large intestine, where water diffuses into capillaries, and some essential materials not absorbed in the small intestine. What is left is waste, then sent to the rectum, which is a temporary storage of feces. When the rectum is a bit full, the waste will exit the body through the anus, and that is feces.

That is what I know of the digestive system. Hope it helped!

Good luck! ;]

Because it no longer serves any useful purpose. It can be removed, without the body suffering any deterioration from its loss.

im trying to figure that out

-_-ya i know your probely mad that i wont answer your question huh?

it is called a vacuole