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The digestive system acts in stages to digest our food. Each stage is
important and prepares the food for the next stage. The entire length of our
digestive system is around 6 to 9 metres!
COMPONENTS OF FOOD
Food contains Carbohydrates ,Fats, Proteins as well as Vitamins ,Minerals
,Water and Fibre.
The Digestion consists mainly in the separation and assimilation of those
components by our body.
2. Swallowing - Swallowing may seem like a simple process to us. It just sort of
happens. But this soft already chewed food (called Bolus)doesn't just fall
down our throats into our stomach. First, our tongue helps to push food into
the back of our throat. Then there are special throat muscles that force the
food down into a long tube that leads to our stomach,
called the esophagus.
The food doesn't just fall down the pipe, muscles push
the food along until it gets to our stomach. At the
same time all this is going on, a flap blocks off our
windpipe making sure food doesn't go the wrong way.
We call this "going down the wrong pipe" and it can
make us choke. This flap is called the epiglottis and,
fortunately for us, it works automatically.
3. Stomach - The next stage is the stomach. Your stomach, a wide, pouchy
part of the digestive tube, is located on the left side of your body above your
waist and behind your ribs.
Food hangs out in the stomach
for around four hours. While
the food sits there, more
enzymes go to work on it,
breaking down things like
proteins that our bodies can
use. The stomach juices are so
acid which kill all the possible
bacteria contained in the food
(bolus).
The stomach stores swallowed food and liquid, mixes the food and liquid with
digestive juice it produces. The stomach juices begin the digestion of proteins
and fats into their respective bodily building blocks amino acids and fatty
acids.,Then, slowly empties its contents, called chyme, into the small intestine.
Churned(batido) by the stomach walls and degraded by the stomach juices,
what started as food apples, pears, potato chips, steak, cake, you name it
is now a thick, soupy mass called chyme (from chymos, the Greek word for
juice). The stomach's wavelike contractions push this messy but still intact
substance along to the small intestine where your body begins to pull out the
nutrients it needs.
4. Small Intestine - The first part of the small intestine works with juices
from the liver and pancreas to continue to break down our food. This part of
your digestive system has its own set of digestive juices including
Alkaline juice from the pancreas that powers special enzymes (called
amylases) to digest carbs.(carbohydrates)
Bile (the bitter, yellow liquid produced by the liver that helps to digest fat) from
the liver and gallbladder that acts as an emulsifier (a compound that
enables fats to mix with water)
Pancreatic and intestinal enzymes that complete the separation of
proteins into amino acids.
In other words when Chyme passes through the small instestine a bombing
of juices from the LIVER,GALLBLADER and PANCREAS finish the
separation and extraction of the necessary elements for us.
This process of juice bombing and absorption takes place in the three parts of
the small intestine as Chyme passes through.
The three parts of the small intestine are:
Duodenum-Jejunum-Ileum
Finally the food gets absorbed from the intestine and into our body through
the blood. The leftovers and not worthy elements go to the Large intestine or
Colon (no es Cristbal)
5. Large Intestine - The last stage is the large intestine. Any food that the
body doesn't need or can't use is sent to the large intestine and later leaves
the body as waste.
The large intestine absorbs water from the chyme and
stores feces until they can be defecated out of the body
through the rectum.
VIDEO
RESOURCES
'The Journey of the Digestive System'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr4onA2k_LY
http://microbemagic.ucc.ie/explore_body/digestive_system.html
Digestive system 3d
ACTIVITIES
1. Match systems and sentences.
Digestive system
Respiratory system
Excretory system
Circulatory system
1.
2.
3.
5.
6.
4.
absorb
excrete
nutrients
small intestine
appendix
filter
pancreas
stomach
chew
large intestine
pharynx
swallow
digest
liver
rectum
teeth
esophagus
mouth
saliva
tongue
8.-The Bile is produced by the Liver and helps the body to absorb fats. . ..
9.- Food passing from the stomach through the small intestine would first pass
into the duodenum, then the ileum, and lastly the jejunum. .
10.- The Large Intestine is responsible for removing water from the undigested
food, turning it from a liquid paste into solid waste. ..
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