Digestion Amazing Facts

Digestion Amazing Facts


We eat about 500 kilograms of food per year.
About a quart of saliva is produced each day.
The esophagus is approximately 8 inches long.
Muscles contract in waves to move the food down the esophagus.
This means that food would get to a person's stomach, even if
they were standing on their head.


Adults stomach can hold approzimately 1 quart of material.
Every day 9 quarts of digested food, liquids and digestive juices
flow through the digestive system, but only two pints are lost as feces.
In the mouth, food is either cooled or warmed to a more suitable
temperature.

This is amazing, i didn't know i made a quart of saliva everyday.