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Digestive System
Digestive System is the category for questions regarding the breakdown and absorption of food-stuffs in our alimentary canal. Questions about the stomach and intestines can be included in this category.
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Drinking less water will NOT help you lose weight. You should drink before and after any physical excercise. I estimate you will lose about 1/4 of a pound as 15 minutes of running is not much at all.
Where is food digested the most and taken into the body?
Most digestion and absorption takes place in the small intestine.
Initial and substantial digestion takes place in the stomach, before being completed in the upper part (duodenum) of the small intestine. The middle part of the small intestine (jejunum) is where most absorption of nutrients occurs, with the remainder done in the final part (ileum), and in the large intestine.
Where does food go after it passes the throat?
It goes through the pharynx (throat), esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine.
After food passes through the throat, it moves into the esophagus. The esophagus is a muscular tube that brings food to the stomach.
Does sympathetic system causes bladder wall relaxation?
Yes it does relax. When the detrusor muscle, part of the bladder wall, constricts, you urinate. In a high energy situation, when sympathetic stimulation is occurring, you wouldn't want to urinate, so the wall must relax.
How does the length of the small intestine assist the digestion?
the lengthb increase the surface area so that it can better absorb nutrients
What is the theoretical achromatic point of salivary amylase?
If we add salivary amylase to any solution ( eg:iodine solution) the colour of solution changes to blue.THE TIME TAKEN BY THE SALIVARY AMYLASE TO CHANGE ITS(iodine solution) COLOUR TO BLUE IS CALLED ACROMATIC POINT OF SALIVARY AMYLASE.
ie, the time upto which the solution is colourless and after that it gains blue colour.
the esophagus is a tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach between 10 and 13 inches long
What would happen to the muscular system if the digestive system broke down?
If the digestive system broke down, the muscular system would no longer receive nutrients. It would start to break down as well. The body would weaken, and tasks would become more difficult.
How are digest systems in different multicellular animals adaptive?
Since there are chemical and physical digestion types, the digestive system enables the animal to be adaptive and take in other forms of food than it is used to.
You have bowel movements because you have to get rid of undigestable material and other wastes from your body. It contains things your body can not use.
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Does digestion help grind food into smaller pieces?
Digestion helps the food go through your system. The food then sits at the bottom of your stomach until it comes out as waste.
What does mechanical digestion mean?
Mechanical digestion happens in only in 2 of your digestion organs mouth and stomach. Mechanical digestion is the mechanical way you digest your food for example when your eating your teeth are mechanical digesting your food by making your food smaller by chewing on it your not changing your food in any way that only happens chemical digestion is happening.Another example of mechanical digestion is in your stomach when the food is bong to the stomach your stomach is squeezing mushing up the food to make it smaller (your stomach is made out of 3 lairs of mussel's which squeeze in all 3 different direction's).
The digestive system processes food into usable and unusable materials by what type of digestion?
The digestive system processes food into usable and unusable materials by chemical digestion. The usable materials are transported via the cells throughout the body while the unusable materials are sent to the large intestine where it waits to be disposed of.
Is there something you can do to stop excessive bloating and burping without using drugs?
baking soda and water works well
