FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE聽|聽March 01, 2012
New American Chemical 中国365bet中文官网 video on the chemistry behind digestion: The body鈥檚 incredible 鈥渄isassembly line鈥�
WASHINGTON, March 1, 2012 鈥� Go ahead. Call digestion a disassembly line. The body takes that carrot, burger, tofu 鈥� whatever morsel of food makes a journey once whimsically described as 鈥渢hrough the lips, past the gums, lookout stomach, here it comes!鈥� Digestion breaks the food down, extracts nutrients, and discards the waste. This amazing example of chemistry in action is the focus of a new episode of the ChemMatters video series, available at .
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This episode explains that our body relies on three major types of food: carbohydrates, fats and proteins. The video highlights how the body breaks down these big three food groups and puts their nutrients to use. Even though all the chemical reactions involved in digestion are different, they are variations of the same type of reaction 鈥� hydrolysis.
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