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The Digestive and Muscular systems

By: Nic and Rachel

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Can you eat while youre upside down?


People think that you have to be standing upright to eat your food, but you dont have to be. The muscles in your esophagus p u s h t h e fo o d i nto yo u r stomach after you swallow.

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What happens after food goes into your stomach?


Acids in your stomach along with muscles lining the outside of the stomach work together to make the food into a mush like substance. Cool fact: The stomachs acid is actully called hydrochloric acid.

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How does your body absorb the nutrients?


After your stomach breaks your food down it goes into the small intestine and muscles push it through and nutrients get sucked out of the food and the waste and fat gets transferred to the liver to get ltered out.

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How does it then exit the body?


After the small intestines the mush that was food has no nutrients left it goes onto the large intestine. This larger than the small intestine so the mush only needs a little bit of help from the muscles around the large intestine. In the large intestine the mush gets dried and then exits the body.

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What is Gastric Cancer?


Gastric cancer or Stomach cancer is a illness that affects your stomach it can be caused by blood line from relatives, unhealthy acts like smoking or bacteria in the stomach. It is more common in men. Fact: Around 8,000 people got stomach in the UK, 21,300 in the US and 1,070 in Hk (all 2009)

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What can you do?


You can avoid stomach cancer by going to the doctor for check-ups, avoid smoking and an unhealthy diet. More cases are cued when doctors know if you have stomach cancer early on than later on.

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Articial Stomach

Scientists are working on designing an articial stomach, but this could take a while.

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Camera Pill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm10YjyAEyQ A pill with a camera inside has been invented to watch the digestive system inside people.

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Bibliography
tp:/ /www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/stomachcancer.htm - 27 September 2012 library.thinkquest.org/28807/data/digl.htm - 24 September 2012 www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/digestive/ - 24 September 2012 Human Biology and Health - Elizabeth coolidge-stolz - Pearson - 2009 Bill Nye the Science Guy http:/ /www.cancer.org/Cancer/StomachCancer/DetailedGuide/stomach-cancer-what-is-stomach-cancer - 27 September 2012

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