Digestion is important for breaking down food into nutrients, which the body uses for energy and growth.
As you see or smell something Delicious food the Digestive System starts.
As you put something in your mouth you start chewing and as you chew your breaking and grinding the food up into smaller pieces so it will be able to go down through your Esophagus, saliva helps it go down.
The Esophagus is like a big long tube that goes down your body but stops at your Stomach. The mushed up food is pushed down the Esophagus and reaches the Stomach.
Once it gets into your stomach it comes out the other side and it goes through your small intestine. The average size of your small intestine is 6 meters or 20 feet long, thats pretty long.
After it goes through you small intestine it then goes through your large intestine which is about the average of 1.5 meters of 5 feet long.
After all of that the waste goes to the exit which is out your bum and into the toilet.
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