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Digesting Your Food
Calorie counting
Energy from food is measured in kilocalories (KCals) or kilojoules ...
Feeling hungry?
In your lifetime, you eat about 30 tonnes (291/2 tons) of food, equal ...
Liver aside
Before it goes to the rest of your body, your blood carries digested ...
DID YOU KNOW?
Food does not just slip down your digestive tube. It is pushed along ...
Choppers and chewers
Your teeth chop and chew your food to make it easier to swallow. You ...
Going the wrong way
Your oesophagus and your trachea (windpipe) are next to each other in ...
Stomach stay
A meal may take up to three days to pass through your digestive ...
Amazing But True
During digestion, food travels through about 9m (29.5ft) of pipes and ...
Food travels
As food travels through you, it is broken into particles small enough ...