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You Are a Doughnut. It's not just the name of our show, you really are! That is, your body is a great big lump of flesh (of tissues and organs) with a remarkable hole running all the way through your middle. That hole is your digestive system.

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The function of the digestive system is to break food down into smaller and smaller pieces (through both physical and chemical digestion), to filter out and absorb nutrients and finally, to eliminate waste.

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During the You Are a Doughnut, Oesoph and Dewey sang and danced there way through ten parts of the human digestive system. Click on the name of each part below to dive a little deeper into the biology...