The Digestive System

The Digestive System

Does anyone ever wonder what happens to food once is leaves the fork and enters the mouth? Most likely no one does but it is all very important to the body that everything works in the digestive system. From basic functions, the path and diseases of the digestive system are vital to daily life. So let's take a journey through the digestive system.
There are many functions of the digestive system, which is also called the alimentary canal or the gastrointestinal tract. All the work begins when food enters the mouth or the oral cavity. Here the teeth, tongue and digestive enzymes break the food down. The food is broken into different types of energy sources that parts of the body can use. The types of energy sources are amino acids, glucose, triglycerides which are broken into fatty acids and glycerols. Once this is completed the next step is to have the energy sources absorb into the bloodstream and sent to different places in the body. An ex...