LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! PLEASE WELCOME, THE ONE, THE ONLY, MAAAAAAAGIC MAAAAAAN!!!!
Thank you! Thank you! Now, who here likes food? Everyone right? But what happens to it when you eat it? Well, that's why I'm here!
Today we're going to learn about digestion!
Now an apple is a pretty common food. Let me take a bite of it.
Now a piece of apple is in my mouth. That's pretty much the entire area from your lips, to down below your tongue.
Now your teeth are housed by your mouth. Your teeth break down the food in your mouth. That's called mechanical digestion!
That's when your body physically breaks down food. Let's talk about saliva next. Saliva is that stuff that keeps your mouth moist and comfy! It helps break down food and helps you swallow!
Now, speaking of swallowing! Did you know that when you swallow liquid and food something called the epiglottis covers your windpipe so you don't get food or liquid in your lungs? Pretty cool right?
When you swallow food it travels down a tube called the esophagus. All this does is carry food and liquid from the mouth to the stomach. While traveling down the esophagus wave-like muscle movements called peristalsis help food and liquid travel down the esophagus into the stomach.
Next what's left of your food enters the stomach. The stomach breaks down the food using stomach acid. This is called chemical digestion.
That's when your body breaks something down using chemicals such as stomach acid.
Next the food enters the small intestine where it is further digested and the nutrients are absorbed.
The inside of the small intestine is lined with villi! Those are the things that absorb all the nutrients from the food.
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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! PLEASE WELCOME, THE ONE, THE ONLY, MAAAAAAAGIC MAAAAAAN!!!!
Thank you! Thank you! Now, who here likes food? Everyone right? But what happens to it when you eat it? Well, that's why I'm here!
Today we're going to learn about digestion!
Now an apple is a pretty common food. Let me take a bite of it.
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