Digestion of Food

How do you think food reach inside the tiny cells?

Look at Khursid's picture and describe how is the glucose drip being given?

Have you or anyone in your family been given a glucose drip? When and why?

Have you ever tasted glucose? How does it taste?

Has anyone told you to eat slowly and to chew well so that the food digests properly. What do you think why they say this?

What is the purpose of O.R.S? How can you prepare it?

Saliva, inside the mouth, makes the food hard.

We should eat food slowly by chewing it.

Which substance in the mouth makes the food sweet?

With which organ can we sense taste?

Why should we eat food slowly?

Ruby, 5 years, she looks about 3 years old. She has very thin arms and legs and a pot belly (stomach like a balloon). She often falls sick. She always feels tired and cannot go to school regularly. She does not have the strength even to play.
Food : She is lucky if she can get a little rice or one roti to eat in the whole day.

Why do you think Ruby could eat only one roti in the whole day?

Nitu's father made a solution of sugar and salt and give it to her. Why do you think this is given to someone who has vomiting and loose motions?

Imagine you are eating something hard like green guava. What kinds of changes take place in it — from the time you bite a piece and put it in your mouth to when you swallow it? Think what does the saliva in our mouth do?

Which organ does Jigyasa use to eat her favourite fruit? It is the first part of the digestive system.

Which of these is taken in the least amount in a healthy, balanced diet? 

Guess my name.
I bring my food back into my mouth to chew it properly. My name is _____.

The main function of the large intestine is to:   

Which of these is a good eating practice?  

Saliva is a digestive juice.