Fantastic Voyage Through the Body
The man is eating a hamburger and French fries while drinking a root beer. He is mechanically separating the food into smaller units, and then he is swallowing it. For this exercise, it is important to realize that there are four different types of material that will be absorbed by the body and that they are all absorbed differently. These are fiber from the leafy greens on the hamburger, fats from the hamburger and French fries, proteins from the hamburger, and carbohydrates in many forms which make up the bulk of the meal. They start off in a common area, but they end up going through different processes to either leave or remain in the body.
The first part of the journey is taken by all of the nutrition types. The man bites off a chunk of burger or fires, or drinks a swallow of root beer, and this is processed first in the mouth. The teeth tear and then chew the food to get it into small enough portions that it can be sent through the second part of the journey. After exiting the mouth, all of the food travels down the esophagus via peristaltic action to the stomach. Here the different types of food part ways.
Fiber is probably the least complex of all of the processes because most of it passes, without molestation, through the digestive tract without any absorption or other interruption. The fiber enters the stomach which does little to break it down other than to further decrease the size of the mass. It then travels down through the small intestine and the colon. It is excreted as solid waste (Robinson, 2011). The fiber actually plays another role as it is excreted...
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