By Dave Merrick ——Bio and Archives--February 23, 2023
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When was the last time you thought much about what happens to the food you are eating? At your next meal - or right now, do me a favor and take a bite of whatever it is you are eating, and immediately began to think about what is happening to that chunk of food disappearing into your body. In layman's terms, you chew it with your teeth, get it chewed-up enough to swallow it, and then you send it on down to your stomach. That's 'eating'. We are today just mostly talking about eating. It is something we all take for granted several times daily. But let us take a brief look at some of the processes and things involved with some of the things that are happening when we eat ...
First, we push in whatever food we want to chew, over/past/through our lips and on into our mouths which are full of teeth. The lips are basically skin-covered strips of muscle and fat that allow us to seal off, from the outside world, stuff we want to eat and drink that we would prefer to keep dust free and not rolling down our shirt fronts. And the lips, beyond introductory eating, also allow us to kiss and whistle (among lots of other useful things). Oh yeah, and they are quite handy in forming words and puckering when we spit, making faces and expressions of all sorts, and so on.
Sometimes funny noises can be made with them - like what is called a "Bronx Cheer". The 'Bronx cheer' is made in conjunction with our 'taste organ', the tongue. [To do a Bronx Cheer, you surround your tongue with your lips (formally called the 'orbicularis oris' or mouth), and squeeze tightly, forming a lubricated seal (not the black-skinned mammal living at the North or South Pole, but a wet air block we'll use in making this noise). Then, forcing air out of your mouth and through that somewhat humbling and funny-looking combination of lips and tongue, the air coming out of your lungs (something we haven't talked about yet) will cause your wet tongue and lips to make a singular buzzing or razzing sound. That particular noise can aggravate people. So it should be used with caution.]
But let's get back to the food that is now inside of your mouth. In your mouth the food is surrounded with teeth which are held in place by flexible, epithelial mouth tissue called 'gums', which is all seated in foundational holes in your upper and lower jaw, the 'maxilla' and 'mandible', respectively. Now, the teeth - something we really need to quickly consider - teeth are just downright amazing in themselves. They are essentially teeth-shaped bones (other types of tissue) coated in porcelain-like 'tissue' (dentists call it 'enamel'). You know that if you take care of your teeth they can last you your entire lifetime. Nevertheless, teeth are cutting and grinding instruments. If they were simply pieces of bone, they would be crushed to stumps in just a few months of service. But our teeth are hard, kept alive and healthy by the blood/nourishment supply which is brought into the teeth through the veins in the roots that come out of the skull.
Okay, so after our teeth cut up and crush/chew the stuff we are eating, our mouth is automatically then filled up with a pre-digestive fluid known as saliva (spit) that mixes with our crushed food, making it nearly a solution, which readies the wad of that masticated 'yummy' for its trip on down to the stomach. Now, this is sort of a tricky point as it leaves the back of our mouth: We have a valvular air passage that sort of 'shares the hallway' with the pipe (called the esophagus) going to our stomach.
Although it rarely happens, people (mostly babies and younger children), have gotten food, "down the wrong pipe," and the air necessary for staying alive is blocked by stuff that was intended to go to the stomach. Further, the food has to pass through a very flexible larynx (our vocal cords) that are the adjustable straps of flesh which produce an incredibly more controlled sort of 'Bronx Cheer' at the top of our 'wind pipes,' which noise we call our 'voice'.
Once past the Larynx, a strange muscular "peristaltic" action occurs which literally squeezes those chunks of food down our lubricated esophagus (food pipe) and on down into our stomach. Sometime, if you had the opportunity, watch a video of some food being moved down the esophagus and into the stomach. [I have provided a link for that, if you would care to look]. Of course, once the food is in the stomach an entire digestive chemistry set comes to life and begins shooting all sorts of decomposition-promoting fluids into that cavity where the stomach will churn on it - transforming it into even more of a digestible mess. And then it will be sent on southward into the intestines where the nutrients, minerals, vital fluids, etc., will be osmotically (simply by touch) collected as it passes from small to large intestines.
And I'm not even here talking about how the kidneys will filter usable water from what you eat and drink. And I'm not even now mentioning how your liver will produce bile and good cholesterol for your body, or the CoQ10 enzyme which will help your heart and other organs to function at their prime capability. I mean, now that we are down in this area, we could go so far as to discuss a little-known piece of epithelial tissue which is draped down over your guts. It is called the omentum. [I mention it here because nearly no one (except real doctors) even know the omentum exists.] The omentum is like an apron that hangs down over your guts. It actually moves (crawls) around when you are injured or infected. And that little puppy will seek out and find a problem area and wrap itself around whatever needs a big Band-Aid. And it will actually, tenderly protect and bring extra healing chemistry to (or remove unwanted infection from) whatever part of your innards needs the help.
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So that is where I will end with these few fun facts about eating. We could have spent hours looking at the above marvels which I have only skipped through in a few paragraphs. But, truth be known - and I mean if it were allowed to be really known - human beings are walking-talking, independent, WHOLE LABORATORIES with a gigantic computer and various microcomputers on board scattered all about the place. We have a 'voluntary' and an 'autonomic' (involuntary) nervous system which not only keeps your eyes moving and your brain thinking as you read these words, but also (unbeknownst to you) keeps your heart beating and the rest of your organs working like clockwork while you are working on whatever, or even while you're up to no good. And that brings me to the question that pretty well wraps up this little article...
Are you actually stupid enough to believe that all of the above miraculous processes - and tons more of the literally most fantastic human biology/anatomical TRUTHS/FACTS that I didn't even mention - HAPPENED ACCIDENTALLY?!! Check out everything I've said. Research for yourself, and do your own homework! I stress this because you need to FULLY REALIZE that there is a completely corrupt and politically determined group, calling themselves "scientists," who are working (some, hopefully unwittingly) with a devil-inspired group of power-hungry "scientists" who want a fat share of the control now being seized by a currently rising, EVIL government system that is looking to literally rule the world.
So when you are being told, these days, to "follow the science," in the current effort directing you into believing things about a so-called "climate emergency" that is not really happening, don't follow them! And when you are being told that mankind is just an accident of a huge, billions--year-old spawning, 'primordial soup', you need to remind yourself that you are being lied to. While it's true that weather is cyclical, we haven't even been recording temperatures long enough to know patterns much beyond a couple hundred years. When this author was in college, this same (then fledgling) group of "scientists" were swearing up-and-down we were entering a second ice age.
We, someday in the future, need to talk about planet Earth. I didn't even mention that planet Earth is a veritable smorgasbord of everything we like to eat and drink (for all the different tastes on board), surrounded by beautiful scenery we love to look at. And we are able to wade off into oceans and lakes we love to swim in, and climbed up mountains we love to ski down (for crying out loud). And you are willing to believe that all of this is just an accident that came boiling out of the same primordial soup?! Oh, stop it!
Look around you. Everything you see began with a thought. And so did you. Think about that.
There is a raging war currently being fought for the eternal possession of your everlasting soul. Get out of the recliner. Turn off your television. Don't let them tell you how to think anymore. You are cleverly being sold a bill of goods. It is working, mostly because the ancient head enemy of our souls is currently the actual, tiptop chief executive officer overseeing the gigantic, worldwide, lying media/entertainment business. Jesus is returning soon.
And that demon knows that his own time is short. Believe me when I tell you that he will tell you anything you want to hear, to seal the deal on you.
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Dave Merrick, Davemerrick.us is an internationally known and published artist whose works reach into the greatest diversity of audiences. Known primarily for his astoundingly lifelike portraiture, Merrick’s drawings and paintings grace the walls of an impressive array of well-known corporate and private clientele. Many of his published wildlife pieces have become some of America’s most popular animal imagery.
He has more original work in the Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame than any other artist. His wildlife and Southwestern-theme work is distributed internationally through Joan Cawley Galleries of Scottsdale AZ.