I'd like to take you on a trip with me. It could take several days. We'll travel stormy seas and cross dry deserts. It will be an arduous journey and you'll never be the same. Where are we going? California? Arizona? Nope! We're going to follow a piece of pizza as it travels through your digestive system.
You open that box with your favorite kind of pizza. The smell rises from the cardboard like a phoenix. You separate that nice big slice and take a bite. Your saliva glands are working like crazy. Your teeth begin to cut into and grind that crust, cheese, pepperoni, onions, olives ... (you get the idea) into a big wet ball of pizza pulp.
Three more chews and your tongue pushes the mass to the back of your throat and down it goes. Muscles in your neck begin to squeeze until it goes doooooown the esophagus tube. Automatically a valve opens and viola! The mush lands in your belly. And our journey is just beginning. We're going to take a close look at the digestive system and its importance to our overall health. Stay tuned.
You open that box with your favorite kind of pizza. The smell rises from the cardboard like a phoenix. You separate that nice big slice and take a bite. Your saliva glands are working like crazy. Your teeth begin to cut into and grind that crust, cheese, pepperoni, onions, olives ... (you get the idea) into a big wet ball of pizza pulp.
Three more chews and your tongue pushes the mass to the back of your throat and down it goes. Muscles in your neck begin to squeeze until it goes doooooown the esophagus tube. Automatically a valve opens and viola! The mush lands in your belly. And our journey is just beginning. We're going to take a close look at the digestive system and its importance to our overall health. Stay tuned.
