The Digestive Process

Digestive Process It is in the mouth, that the Thanksgiving feast begins its journey through the fabulous digestive system. It is here that the lips, cheeks and tongue, carefully position the food that the teeth will chew. This chewing process breaks up the food, this being a part of mechanical digestion. While the teeth grind up the turkey and tasty stuffings, the salivary glands begin emitting enzymes, these enzymes being contained in saliva. This saliva …

…The colon proceeds to remove water from the chyme passing through it, reducing it into solid waste, or feces. Again, through the process of persitalsis, the fecal matter is passed through the colon, where it will then gather at the end of the colon, in the rectum. Muscles located in the colon prevent the feces from being released until it becomes convenient for us to expel them from the body, by way of the anus.