Non Fiction Post March

I just read a very interesting article from national geographic. It is about the digestive system. The digestive system is a lot of tube like structures and organs that help you digest your food. In all there is about 30 feet long of all different pipes and tubes. The job of the digestive system is to break down food, sort is and reprocess it. The reason you chew your food is because your body needs it to be mashed up so it could go down through your body.

There are different parts of the digestive system. It all starts when you chew your food. You chew it mechanically when you are just straight out chewing up your food but once saliva mixes with the food it becomes chemical. Then once you swallow it, it goes down a large skinny tube called your esophagus. Then from there it goes to your stomach then small intestine and then large intestine.

After reading this article i think a lot more of the digestive system. I did learn about it this year in science and i just think that it such an interesting thing. It's crazy to think all of those organs are so long and can fit inside you. I also just thought before that once you swallow your food its all digested. But that is not the case. In fact it takes at least half an hour to tell if you are full or not.

I still have so many questions about the digestive system. Like what do other organs do? also how come the small intestine is actually bigger then the large intestine?
Overall, the digestive system is a really important and interesting topic!

The link to the article: http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/digestive-system-article.html