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Suto Norbert Zsolt/ShutterStock, About It 1 Your friend warns you that eating some foods together is not healthful. Is this likely to change your eating behavior? 2 How good are you at identifying tastes? 3 Have you ever noticed that food sometimes tastes sweeter after chewing it for a while? 4 You feel particularly happy and you nd that a meal prepared by your friend tastes especially good. Any connection? Learning Objectives Sequence the steps for digestion of food and absorption of nutrients through the digestive system. Explain the role of enzymes in digestion. Explain how nutrients are circulated through and eliminated from the body. Identify factors that in uence digestion, absorption, and nutrient transport in the body. Examine common nutritional and digestive system disorders for their root causes. Visit Chapter 3 Digestion and Absorption 10522/02/13 1:02 PM Jones & Bartlett Learning , LLC.
Figure 3.3 Structural organization of the GI tract wall. Your intestinal tract is a long, hollow tube lined with mucosal cells and surrounded by layers of muscle cells.
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