The Digestive System
By Blake and Savannah
What is the digestive system?
The Digestive System is a group of organs working together to convert food into energy and basic nutrients to feed the entire body.
functions and strucutres of the digestive system...
FUNCTION
1. breaks down into molecules it can use.2. absorbs molecules into the blood and carries them into the rest of the body.
3. eliminates waste from the body.
MAJOR STRUCTURES
salivary glands, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine
Organs: liver, gallbladder and pancreas
There are many different research centers but this one seemed to stand out and explain what current the research of the Digestive System.
Researchers at King's College London and Imperial College London have discovered that people with fewer copies of a gene coding for a carb-digesting enzyme may be at higher risk of obesity. The findings, published in Nature Genetics, suggest that dietary advice may need to be more tailored to an individual's digestive system, based on whether they have the genetic predisposition and necessary enzymes to digest different foods.