Your Table of Contents Part 4 - Two Nervous Systems One Food Digestion System We now come to that part of the tube where evidence of constipation first assumes form. In the large bowel practically no digestion occurs, and normally most of the absorption of foodstuffs has already occurred in the small intestine. I say [...]
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Sphincter in Food Digestion
Your Table of Contents Part 3 - Sphincter in Food Digestion The bile formed by the liver passes down the bile duct, encounters the closed valve, and is thus prevented at the moment from passing into the intestine. It backs up into what is known as the gall bladder. However, the moment the acid content [...]
Food Digestion Control Valves
Your Table of Contents Part 2 - Food Digestion Control Valves Whatever you eat and drink is passed down along the food digestion canal by a sort of a “milking” process, known technically as peristalsis. It is accomplished by contractions of the digestive tube above the mass of food and simultaneous relaxations of that part [...]
Food Digestion
Your Table of Contents Part 1 – Food Digestion The food digestion canal is a soft tube with a hard life. Indeed, a long soft tube with, very often, a short, hard life. Its trials and troubles concern us all, for it is the one essential organ wherewith we live on our daily bread. One [...]
