Facts About the Digestive System

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The function of the digestive system in human beings is very important. It provides energy to the body’s organs by extracting nutrients from the food which we eat. There are many interesting facts about the digestive system which will amuse you in a great manner.

Fact 1: Food is just like fuel, and we get energy from it to do work, but we cannot get energy from food particles in case of the absence of the digestive system.

Fact 2: Digestive system in the human body does nothing but converts the large food particles into the molecules which are easily absorbed into the bloodstream to provide necessary nutrients to all body parts.

Fact 3: The digestive system in human’s starts from the mouth and the succeeding parts are: esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, and finally the rectum.

Fact 4: It could be a surprising fact for you that some other body organs also play positive roles in facilitating the function of the digestive system. These other body organs are: liver, pancreas, and gall bladder.

Fact 5: A very interesting fact about the digestive system is that the function of the mouth in helping the digestive system is not ignorable. The mouth makes the temperature of the food just suitable for the remaining  parts of the digestive system .

Fact 6: You might not have read such exciting facts about the digestive system that it starts working just after the food enters the mouth.

Fact 7: A surprising fact about the stomach, which is a very important part of the digestive system, is that it has the ability to become enlarged four times larger than its normal size.

Fact 8: The normal digestion time for a light carbohydrate meal is two hours while in the case of a heavy, fatty meal, this duration becomes six hours.

Fact 9: The major portion of digestion takes place in the small intestine which absorbs up to 90 percent of food particles.

Fact 10: The most interesting fact about the digestive system is that the large intestine is smaller in length as compared to the short intestine. The terms ‘œlarge’ and ‘œsmall’ indicate the width of the intestine which is much more distinguished in the case of the large intestine.

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