Why do we eat food?
I mean, really, wouldn't life be far simpler if we didn't have to?
Well the thing is we need energy to keep on living.
Each part of our body needs to be recharged with energy, and we get that energy from food.
We could try and put the food straight into the parts of our body where it is needed…
…but that would be silly.
Because we have a digestive system!
A series of organs that break food down in a useful way for the body.
And it gets rid of all the body's waste as well!
Digestion
The food we eat has to be broken down into other substances that our bodies can use. This is called digestion.
Without digestion, we could not absorb food into our bodies and use it.
Digestion happens in the digestive system. This is a series of organs that break the food down so it can be absorbed into our bloodstream.
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