How Is Food Broken Down?

How Is Food Broken Down?

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How Is Food Broken Down? |

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How Is Food Broken Down?

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How Is Food Broken Down? |

How Is Food Broken Down? |

Digestive System
|   | Did you hear that growling noise? What was it? All of us have been in a quiet room and heard someone’s stomach growl. Or perhaps it was our own stomach that was growling. What makes our stomachs growl, and what does it mean? When we hear our stomachs make that noise, we know that it has been too long since we have eaten anything. It means that we are hungry. |

All living things need food to survive, but why? Food provides both a source of energy, as well as the building blocks to help your body grow, develop, and repair itself. Imagine that your teacher has assigned you the difficult task of building a castle out of blocks. |   | |
What do you need? Well… blocks would be nice wouldn’t they. Could you build a block castle without any blocks? Just like you need blocks to build a castle, your body needs the blocks of life to build itself. These blocks are taken into your body through your mouth, by the process of eating. Though we don’t recommend you eat actual blocks. Instead of toy blocks, your body uses food.
 

How Is Food Broken Down? |

|   | Through the process of digestion, your body breaks the food down into the basic blocks of life, and than rebuilds them by incorporating them into your body. Just like if you were to take apart a Lego dinosaur so that you could use the blocks to build your castle. Your body is constantly breaking food down, and then using the pieces to build, repair, and grow your body. |
There are many parts or organs utilized by your digestive system. The job of each of these organs is to break food down into smaller pieces or smaller blocks, so that by the time that this food reaches the cells of your body, they are nothing more than tiny molecules. |   | |
Lets consider a delicious hot dog for a...

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