Homeostasis
How it affects the Digestive System & More
Homeostasis & The Digestive System
"The maintenance of healthy blood pressure is an example of homeostasis. The heart can sense changes in the blood pressure, causing it to send signals to the brain, which then sends back signals telling the heart how to respond. If blood pressure is too high, naturally the heart should slow down; while if it is too low, the heart wants to speed up."
- http://www.answers.com/Q/How_does_the_digestive_system_maintain_homeostasis
The digestive system is a group of organs working together to convert food into energy and basic nutrients to feed the entire body. The organs include the anus, appendix, esophagus, gallbladder, large intestine, small intestine, mouth, pancreas, stomach, liver, rectum, and tongue.
How does the digestive system maintain homeostasis? The digestive system and circulatory system work together to maintain homeostasis, the circulatory is basically the delivery system. Blood in the capillaries carries the nutrients to all the cells in the body. Delivering WBC's to fight infections and platelets help in blood clotting. RBC's transport oxygen and hydrogen ions throughout the body. The plasma transports the cells so without the plasma, the cells and platelets couldn't go anywhere. All of these help maintain homeostasis.
Circulatory System
Skeletal System
Muscular System
Skeletal Muscle = used in locomotion and in all voluntary movement
Cardiac Muscle = found only in heart (involuntary)
Smooth Muscle = found in digestive tract, blood vessels, and other internal organs (involuntary)
Involuntary muscle = muscles that move without your control.
Voluntary muscle = muscles that move with your control
It works together with the skeletal system by attaching muscles to bones so the body can move. It works with the circulatory system by being supplied with blood to the body parts so it can move.
Junk Foods
How does it affect the circulatory system? The trans fat in junk food can clog up your arteries. That stops your body from getting the oxygen it needs to survive. Junk foods don't just clog up your arteries, if a blood vessel in your brain gets clogged, the blood vessel could explode which could lead to death. Because junk food has no nutrients, your body will use the sugar from the junk food for energy. This is why you have a "sugar high" and after some of the sugar runs out, you then feel a "sugar crash". Not just that, the sugar in the junk food will cause your blood sugar to rise, this causes your pancreas to get overworked. Therefore the pancreas cannot work properly and it cannot produce insulin, the hormone needed to keep your blood sugar stable.
How does it affect the skeletal system? Too much fat has a negative effect on the development of bone tissue, especially at an early age. "A high density of fast food restaurants in the area significantly increased the risk of reduced bone mineral density, increased fragility. Doctors warn that food from fast food places is sometimes a good option to eat for adults. Children should be fed extremely useful and healthy food that is balanced in nutritional value, proteins, fats and carbohydrates." Source: http://medicineinfo.net/fast-food-does-harm-to-the-skeletal-system-of-children-scientists.html
How does it affect the muscular system? You might be concerned on how too much food might cause you to gain weight, there are far worse consequences than that. "People who ate a diet focused on macaroni and cheese, processed lunchmeat, sausage biscuits, mayonnaise, and microwavable meals with unhealthy fats, for example, showed serious negative changes to their metabolism after just five days.
After eating the junk-food diet, the study participants (12 healthy college-aged men) muscles' lost the ability to oxidize glucose after a meal, which could lead to insulin resistance down the road.1" - http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/04/29/junk-food-metabolism.aspx