digestion

Explains how the digestive system works, and discusses its role in the human body, problems that can affect the digestive system, and how to develop healthy habits.

A simple introduction to the stomach, including its makeup, function within the digestive system, stomach diseases, and how to keep your stomach healthy.

An illustrated introduction to the stomach and digestive system, explaining how they work to turn food into energy.

Questions and answers explain the human digestive system and how it uses food for nutrition.

Uses illustrations and microphotography to support lessons on how the digestive system functions in the human body. Includes definitions of unfamiliar words, and a cumulative index.

Describes how different kinds of food provide needed nutritional fuel for the human body and how the process of digestion works.

Describes the causes and treatments for stomachaches and how to avoid them.

Describes the digestive system's parts and discusses each step of the digestive process in detail, covering such topics as taste buds, swallowing, the duration of digestion, pancreas juices, the villi of the small intestine, and the importance of the kidneys.

Discusses diet and nutrition and what happens to the food we eat as it passes through each of the digestive organs.

Provides an overview of the digestive system, explaining how it works, why it is an important part of the human body, and what can go wrong.