What is left after our bodies strip food away of all its nutrients?
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Mostly bacteria.  Also, fiber, bile acids, etc.
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In humans, digestion begins in the mouth where food is chewed with the teeth. The process stimulates exocrine glands in the mouth to release digestive enzymes such as salivary amylase, which aid in the breakdown of food, particularly carbohydrates. Chewing also causes the release of saliva, which helps condense food into a bolus that can be easily passed through the esophagus. The esophagus is about 20 centimeters long. The food is pushed down by a movement called peristalsis, which is the wave-like contraction of smooth muscle tissue characteristic of the digestive system.\nThe food enters the stomach upon passage through the cardiac sphincter. In the stomach, food is churned and thoroughly mixed with a digestive fluid, composed chiefly of hydrochloric acid, and other digestive enzymes to further decompose it chemically for a few hours. As the acidic level changes in the stomach and later parts of the digestive tract, more enzymes are activated or deactivated to extract and process various nutrients.\nAfter being processed in the stomach, food is passed to the small intestine via peristalsis. It passes through the pyloric sphincter and enters the first 10 inches of the small intestine, the duodenum, where it is further mixed with 3 different liquids, which are bile (which helps aid in fat digestion), pancreatic juice (made by the pancreas), and intestinal juice. They also add several enzymes: maltase, lactase and sucrase, to process sugars. (Bile also contains pigments that are by-products of red blood cell destruction in the liver; these bile pigments are eliminated from the body with the feces.) Most nutrient absorption takes place in the small intestine. The nutrients pass through the small intestine's wall, containing small, finger-like structures called villi. The blood, which has absorbed nutrients, is carried away from the small intestine via the hepatic portal vein and goes to the liver for filtering, removal of toxins, and nutrient processing.\nAfter going through the small intestine, the food then goes to the large intestine. The large intestine has 3 parts: the cecum (or pouch that forms the T-junction with the small intestine), the colon, and the rectum. In the large intestine, water is reabsorbed, and the foods that cannot go thorugh the villi such as fiber, can be stored in large intestine. Fiber helps to keep the food moving through the G.I. tract. The food that cannot be broken down is called feces. Feces is stored in the rectum until it is expelled through the anus.\n\n\nIt's long I know, but it's fairly simple words.
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You have it right. Your body needs some water to help digest your food. For one thing, the food we eat has vitamins and minerals. Some of those are water soluable and need some watery substance to digest them properly. Especially if you are taking a multi vitamin with food.
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CUT OUT ALL THE FATS IN YOUR DIET
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Fruit is good for you, but they don't have much if any: iron, protein, fat, other minerals, and there are quite a few other important nutrients that they lack. Saying that, if you were to restrict yourself to only one type of food, fruit would be your best bet. If you get enough amino acids, the lack of protein isn't a huge issue. You should eat fish at least once a week, to get your required fats, and supplements will help your mineral intake.\n\nHumans don't get on well only eating one type of food as a rule, you should get a balanced diet.
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No, but keep in mind...weight gain is cumulative. Depending on the time and composition of the food, some will leave the system and some will stay. Foods break down into proteins, fats and carbohydrates. You might not retain the foods you eat at one sitting, but overtime your body will store more fats and fluids than you need.
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Eating more calories than your body needs results in fat. A calorie is energy and when the body has to much energy or calories than they are stored as fat.\n\nCarbs are the easiest thing for your body to use to create fat stores.Carbs are almost pure energy for the body and the energy from carbs is normally immediatly stored if not used.\n Rarley will you gain fat from protein sources since protein is used to repair damaged tissue. Only if an excessive amount of protein is eatin will that happen.\nFats themselves are not bad and dont always go towards the fat stores in the body. The body needs all kinds of fats to perform all finds of bodily functions.\n\nAnother way is when the body gets to few calories and lowers the metabolism to accommidate this. If this persists than the starvation response is activated and the body will store all the food it can as fat in order to prepare itself for lower and lower amounts of calories.
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Foods high in fiber (like veggies) produce more gas as your body processes them. Plants also contain fewer (and different) amino acids than animals (that is, less protein), so the gaseous waste produced by digestion has less nitrogen and fewer stinky nitrogenous compounds.
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food = glucose,fertilizers to boost production of food grains,preservatives for food\nclothings=Nylon,Polyster,Rayon etc\nshelter= cement,plaster of paris,metals like iron,aluminium obtained after mettalurgical processes\ntransport=oil through cracking of crude\nhealth =antibiotics,vitamins\nadvancement of knowledge =space explorations enabled by rocket fuels(propellants)\nYou can think many more just look around yourselves
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Yes. It is generally the water-base fruits and veggies, like celery, cucumbers, and watermelon. Also, the colder they are when you eat them, the more calories your body expends while digesting.
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There are a few vitamins that are destroyed during the cooking process.  The most thermolabile is vitamin C and then vitamin B1.  However, we usually do not depend on cooked food for vitamin C.\n\nMany other nutrients and phytochemicals are better usable by the body when you apply heat to them.  For instance, potato, dried beans and peas, and tomato have more available nutrients and phytochemicals when they are cooked.  All minerals are retained in the food during cooking, unless they are leached out into the surrounding water.\n\nI usually suggest that people have a variety of foods, with some fresh ones.  This will give a good variety of all the nutrients and phytochemicals.\n\nLenore
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achieves physical and chemical breakdown of food; absorbs nutrients; eliminates solid wastes
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Once we digest food and reach to the intestine enzymes will digest or hydrolyze the nutrients into its small components( amino acids in the case of proteins) so that they could be absorbed by the intestine into the bloodstream, distributed throughout the body in order to be reused by body cells to biosynthesize new molecules (proteins).
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yes, when brain activity ceases the body releases your muscles used to keep things inside.
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As sticky as chewing gum might appear to be outside the body, once it's sent down the alimentary canal it's no more remarkable in that respect than most anything else we swallow.\n\nGum is eliminated as human waste in the same way — and at the same rate — as any other swallowed matter. Granted, it comes out the far end relatively unchanged by the trip, but it does come out on schedule.
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We break down the tissues/plants in to basic nutrients when we digest it.  However, this is half truth.  We cannot digest chemical or bacterial grown in these food.  This is probably true for any food that uses pesticide or hormone injected in live stock.  The hormone, antibiotic, pesticide doesn't break down easy and end up in our body.\n\nI mean have you noticed kids grow up lot faster these days and everyone is getting stronger shots of antibiotic cuz our body is so used to antibiotic.\n\nStill, it's far from growing 2 heads or 5 arms.  Although I'd like an extra head or an arm at times.
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1.) proteins\n2.) carbohydrates\n3.) lipids and sacharides\n4.) vitamins\n5.) minerals\n6.) water\n7.) fiber (undigestable parts of food)