• Pollution control
  Your liver gets rid of waste by a process called detoxification. It ...

• Food travels
  As food travels through you, it is broken into particles small enough ...

• Amazing But True
  During digestion, food travels through about 9m (29.5ft) of pipes and ...

• Stomach stay
  A meal may take up to three days to pass through your digestive ...

• Going the wrong way
  Your oesophagus and your trachea (windpipe) are next to each other in ...

• Choppers and chewers
  Your teeth chop and chew your food to make it easier to swallow. You ...

• Feeling hungry?
  In your lifetime, you eat about 30 tonnes (291/2 tons) of food, equal ...

• DID YOU KNOW?
  Food does not just slip down your digestive tube. It is pushed along ...

• Liver aside
  Before it goes to the rest of your body, your blood carries digested ...

• Calorie counting
  Energy from food is measured in kilocalories (KCals) or kilojoules ...