Gl Tract

• Healthy Plate consists of:

  1/4 Starch

  1/4 protein

  1/2 vegetable
• Constipation generally happens when you go poop (have a bowel movement) less frequently than you normally do. When you’re constipated, your poop is often dry and hard and it’s difficult and painful for your poop to pass.
• Diarrhea is when you have loose or watery poop. Diarrhea can be caused by many things, including bacteria, but sometimes the cause is unknown.

   
• An ulcer is a sore that develops on the lining of the esophagus, stomach or small intestine.
• Heartburn is an uncomfortable burning feeling in your chest that can move up your neck and throat. It happens when acidic digestive juices from your stomach go back up your esophagus.
• Teeth

  hold, tear, ant chew foods
• tongue -

  moves food mass in a small, soft ball to the rear of the mouth where it is swallowed
• liver-

  produces digestive juice

  called bile
• gall bladder

  stores bile until needed for digestion
• small intestine -

  absorbs useable food substances which are sent to all body parts by blood vessels

  Food digestion is now complete.
• salivary glands

  secrete juices into the mouth
• esophagus food passageway

  between mouth and stomach
• stomach

  receives food, churns it, and adds gastric juices to it
• pancreas

  produces digestive juices to further break down food in digestion
• large intestine

  stores unused solid substances after water is removed
• rectum

  holds solid waste and controls its release from body
• The digestive system

  changes food into useable substances for the body.