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Hello everyone I am thrilled to announce that I allow for once again be miniaturized along with my submarine and take you on another Fantastic Voyage inside the human body. In slip-up you have forgotten the details of our last journey, my sub and I bequeath be shrunken big money to be 8 microns long. This time I will be swallowed by Fred, a 55 year venerable man, while he enjoys a hamburger, French fries, and root beer. As I pilot my way through his body, I will be describing the mathematical suffice of digestion and what major structures I see and come across. Can you imagine world part of someones meal? Neither can I, unless here I am being chewed and interracial with a sappy burger by Freds teeth. As Fred enjoys his meal, the first part of digestion is happening in his oral cavity. Freds burger is a mixture of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. As he chews and moves his fodder around with the help of his tongue, I can see his saliva approach from different angles an d mixing with his food. There are three pairs of salivary glands, the parotids, submandibulars, and sublinguals. They conceal most (about 1L) of the saliva produced each day in an adult. (Thibodeau & Patton, 2008, pg397) Saliva contains mucus and a digestive enzyme called salivary amylase. As you can see here, the process of chewing combined with this mucus is allowing the food to break down into a small bolus. After this process I am now mixed up with the bolus and with the help of Freds tongue, I have began moving down into the pharynx and then down to this muscular tube called the esophagus. The esophagus is a stretchy pipe, about 25 centimeters that carries food and liquids from the throat to the stomach for digestion aft(prenominal) it has been chewed and chemically softened in the mouth. ( familiar luggage compartment, 2013) ... ...nceThibodeau, G., Patton, K. (2008). Structure and Function of the Body (13th ed.). St. Louis, MO Mosby Elsevier Publishing. InnerBody, Dig estive System. (2013). Retrieved from http//www.innerbody.com/image/digeov.htmlKidsHealth (1995). Your Digestive System, On the way down. Retrieved from http//kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/digestive_system.htmlInner Body, Superior Mesenteric Artery. (1999). Retrieved fromhttp//www.innerbody.com/image_dige08/card25.htmlCoffman, M. A. (n.d.). The Absorption of Food by the Human Body Healthy Eating SF Gate. Retrieved from http//healthyeating.sfgate.com/absorption-food-human-body-4100.htmlOza, N., & Cooper, D. (2011, May 18). How Does the Human Body Maintain Homeostasis? How Chemicals and organs Work Together to Keep the Body in Balance. Retrieved from http//www.brighthub.com/science/ aesculapian/articles/111342.aspx