Sunday, July 11, 2010

Interesting facts about the digestive system

1) an adult's esophagus is around 10 to 14 inches long and 1 inch in diameter

2)our salivary glands can make around 1 to 3 pints of saliva a day

3)an average male can store up to 1.5L of material inside the stomach

4)a normal person can hold up to 400 species of bacteria in their large
intestine

5)food stays in the stomach for 2-3 hours

6)The entire digestive tract(path of the food) is about 30 feet long!

7)the large intestine is shorter than the small intestine by 5 feet but its
actually the diameter is bigger than the small intestine by about 4-5 inches

8) the largest internal organ is the liver

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