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| sugars and starches (glucose) they provide you with energy, chemical digestion starts in the mouth with amylace breaking up the carbohydrates |
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| a thick creamy liquid made up of partly digested food, found in the stomach; barf |
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| found on the inside walls of the stomach, thick for protection against gastric acid and hydrochloric acid for preventing Ulcers |
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| hydrochloric acid and pepsin mixed together creating an enzyme called gastric juice, it chemically breaks down protien |
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| too much creates health problems, but it carries energy, and provides protective layers of padding around the heart and other important organs |
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| Found in all the cells of your body, it builds tissue and repairs your body, digestion starts with protien |
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| when the normal digestive process reverses, opens the sphincter between the esophagus and stomach, then comesback up, and out |
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| One layer circles the stomach, and another runs from one end to another, this helps move food around and break it down |
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| when gastric juices get backed up, and blockes the lower esophagus and causes a burning sensation |
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| when gastric juice finds a hole not covered by mucus it fills the hole with hydrollic acid, burning a hole, and causing an ulcer |
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| closes your trachea when you swallow, closes your wind pipe |
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| things you need to live; there are 6, vitamins, minerals, water, fats, carbs, and protiens, they are all needed for life functions |
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| perestalsis, squeezing stuff down through the digestive track |
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| chemicals that make things happen, a special protien made by the body |
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| where the mouth tears, grinds, and mixes the food (teeth tounge saliva) |
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| an enzyme; found in human saliva, used to break starch down into sugar |
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| spit; produced by 3 pairs of glands in the sides and back of throat, makes food moister and easier to handle in swallowing |
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| the living parts of your body, the smallest basic unt of life, needs o2 and glucose for cellular respiration |
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| a ring of muscle that helps keep swallowed food in the stomach |
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| chemicals made by living organisms |
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| chamicals that occur naturally in the environment |
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| a nutrient because your body is 3/4 water, and needs water to function |
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