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What Happens to your Food?

Have you ever wondered What Happens to your Food when it slips and slides through your body? What happens inside your body? 

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We all know food start with your mouth and what happens after that? After you swallow your food, it will go down through a tube to your stomach.  

What does the stomach do?

Your stomach squeezes and mashes up the food. It also secrets a special “stomach juice” called digestive juice to help with the digestion of the food.  

What Happen Next?

Once all the food is digested, it all goes through the tube to your small intestine. More “digestive juices” is found in the small intestine to make the food into smaller pieces. The tiny pieces of food are being sucked out through the side of the intestine and travel to the part of your body that needs them. 

What Happen to the leftover food that a not used?

The left over food pieces will now make its way to the Large Intestine. They are now quite watery and sloppy. The Large intestine is wider but shorter than the small intestine. It sieve through the left over food pieces and sucks out the water, so the left over food pieces becomes sluggish and useless. 

At the end of the journey, we have to let the unused food pieces out of our body – HOW? By visiting the toilet.

   What Happnes to your Food. This is a great book to share with your child. 

Related article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/healthy_living/nutrition/basics_digestive.shtml