What is the Digestive System? Your digestive system is important because it takes in food and breaks it down into nutrients that can be used by the body and removes digested parts of the food solid wastes cannot be used by the body.
Ingestion - Food enters the mouth
Digestion - Process that breaks down food into small molecules
Absorption - Small molecules of food are taken into body cells
Elimination - Unabsorbed food goes out of the body
It takes 2 to 3 whole weeks to digest gum!
Food stays in your stomach for 2 to 3 hours!
We eat 50 tons of food in our whole life! That's like eating 50 cars!
Stomach acids can dissolve metal but NOT plastic!
Even if you stand upside down, food will still go to your stomach!
It takes about 7 seconds for food to travel through the esophagus to the stomach!