Last week we began the grossest unit of the year - Digestion! We will be talking about how your food gets processed, watching videos that explore what really happens to all that food, and will actually dissect a worm to look at its digestive system (compared to ours). These all sound really fun (maybe only to some), but an important step in understanding how this system works is knowing that just because your eating doesn't mean your digesting . Breaking down your food into its most basic pieces (molecules), then absorbing all of those nutrients into your blood stream and eventually your cells is REALLY digestion. Just because you eat doesn't mean you absorb those nutrients. Your body uses many organs that both physically mash up and chemically breakdown food to help it get absorbed more easily. If these processes don't work correctly, not all of your food is digested. This week we will be looking at these topics in more depth - specifically at how each organ breaks down incoming food and contribute to nutrient absorption.
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