Great Webcast Explaining the Digestive Systems

post from Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog on 11 August 2012 01:16:12 AM. © Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog

You will learn things like why it is so important to chew your food well (increase the surface area for enzymes to get at the food). Our bodies also have adapted to provide a huge surface area for the digestive system to work; the small intestine alone has a surface area of 250 square meters (larger than the size of most apartments). Your small intestine is 4.5 to 10.5 meters long.

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