Fun Facts About Farts

Fun Facts About Farts

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*We eat about 500kg of food per year.

*1.7 liters of saliva is produced each day

*You can swallow even if you are standing on your head.

*Every day 11.5 liters of digested food, liquids and digestive juices flow through the digestive system, but only 100mls is lost in feces.

*Food stays in your stomach for 2-6 hours.

*Small intestine, 5-6 meters long

*Esophagus is 25 cm long

*The food stays in the small intestine from 1-4 hours

*The food stays at the colon for 10 hours or for a several days .Most of us pass somewhere between 200 and 2,000 ml of gas per day (average, about 600 ml) in roughly 13-14 passages. These emissions are composed of five gasses: nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), carbon dioxide (CO2), hydrogen (H2), and methane (CH4).

*Produce more gas than meat-eaters because the intestinal enzymes can't digest the cellulose in vegetables' cell walls

*Does your poop float? If so, that means bacteria in your gut are producing methane

*The noise created by passing gas is not from the two buttocks vibrating together, as many believe. The noise created occurs as the gas passes through the anal sphincter. It's influenced by a combination of the volume of gas, the force with which it's expelled and the tightness of the anal sphincter.

*Flatulence is the production of a mixture oa air and gases in the digestive tract that are by-product of the digestion process.

*Average Flatulence composition constitutes 59% nitrogen, 21% hydrogen, 9% carbon dioxide, 7% methane, 3% oxygen, 1% other crap.

*Farts are indeed inflammable.

*The average person will fart 14 times a day and produce half a litre of fart gas everyday.

*Top 10 Farters Termites, Camels, Zebras, Sheep, Cows, Elephants, Laboradors, humans(veggie), humans (non veggies), Gerbils.

*Farts can come blazing out of your ass at 7 mph.

*Farts are 98.6 F at the time of creation.

*You cannot suffocate in a chamber full of your fart.

*Hydrogen sulphide is the compound in farts that make them stink.

*A person can still fart after death.

*Farty foods beans, corns, cauliflower, milk, bread, eggs, bear, raisins, sprouts, lentils, onions, garlic, oats, yeast, cashwes.

Digestion
*Digestion is the breakdown of large, complex organic molecules into smaller components that can be used by the body.

*Molecules need to be small enough to diffuse across plasma membranes.

Four Stages of Digestion
1. Ingestion – this is the consumption of or taking in of nutrients.
2. Digestion – the chemical breakdown of large organic molecules into smaller components by enzymes.
3. Absorption – the transport or delivery of digested nutrients to body tissues.
4. Egestion – the elimination of food waste materials from the body.

Alimentary Canal
*The human digestive tract is often referred to as the alimentary canal.

*The alimentary canal of a normal adult is approximately 6.5 to 9 meters long.

*It runs from mouth to anus!

What organs/structures make up the alimentary canal? Which contribute to digestion? Which don’t?

Mechanical Digestion
*Physical breakdown of food begins with the teeth grinding the food and increasing its surface area. An increase surface area allows for easier chemical digestion

*Bacteria living in the mouth can feed off of nutrients sticking to the teeth and cause tooth decay.

Saliva
*Saliva is released from the salivary glands and begins chemical digestion of starches. Saliva contains the enzyme salivary amylase which breaks down starches into simpler carbohydrates. (chemical digestion)

*Saliva also moistens and lubricated food, making it easier to swallow.

Taste Buds
*As the food particles dissolve in the saliva they penetrate the cells of the taste buds located on the tongue and cheeks.

*Humans can differentiate between sweet, sour, salty and bitter.

*It used to be thought that specific regions of the tongue were responsible for bitter/sweet/sour and salty

Swallowing
*Saliva also lubricates the food and helps to form a bolus, the ball of food that is swallowed.

Esophagus
*The bolus of food moves down the esophagus propelled by wave-like muscular contractions known as peristalsis.

*Peristalsis moves food all the way through the gastrointestinal tract.

Stomach
*The stomach acts as a temporary storage site for food. Food usually spends about 4 hours in the stomach. It has ridges which allow it to expand to store about 1.5 litres of food.

*The stomach is also the site of initial protein digestion.

*Movement of food into and out of the stomach is controlled by circular muscles known as sphincters.

*The cardiac (lower esophageal) sphincter allows food from the esophagus to enter and prevents food from going back up into the esophagus.

*The pyloric sphincter slowly releases partially digested food into the small intestine. The partially digested food is called chyme.

*Millions of cells lining the stomach secrete various fluids known collectively as gastric fluids.

*Gastric fluid consists of mucus, hydrochloric acid, pepsinogens and other substances.

*Mucus coats and protects the lining of the stomach. Hydrochloric acid kills any harmful substances that have been ingested and it also converts pepsinogen into pepsin.

*Pepsin is a protein digesting enzyme that breaks large protein chains into smaller chains.

Endoscopy
*An endoscope can be used to view things such as stomach ulcers or a tumor growing in the large intestine.

*The endoscope can also extract small pieces of tissue for a biopsy.