Posts Tagged ‘gut’
Fibre and healthy diet
Tags: energy, fibre, fibrous food, food, gut, healthy diet, non-fibrous food, perilstasis, roughage
Filed under Digestion | Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
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Here are some things that you can do to see how peristalsis works. Put a little oil or grease on a small marble. The oil or grease represents the slippery fluid called mucus which is produced by the walls of the gut. Mucus helps to lubricate the movement of food through the gut. Put the […]
Food we eat
Tags: anus, bladder, Digestion, eat food, faeces, food, gut, healthy diet, mouth, peristalsis
Filed under Digestion | Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
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So, what’s the essenceof the process of digestion? Given a healthy diet and good teeth, what does the body do with the food which we eat? Food enters the body through the mouth. Waste leaves the body in a number of ways. For example, it comes out as liquid from the bladder, called urine. Waste […]
