How Your Body Works: 1 (Children's World)

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The skeletal system provides a strong and durable framework upon which all your meat hangs, while helping to protect your delicate internal organs.

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You can get proteins from either plant or animal sources. Proteins are necessary to rebuild muscle and organ tissues, as well as to provide energy. The muscles, glands, and organs are mostly made from proteins and various minerals. Like the brain, they require sugar to function, as well as amino acids, fluids, and electrolytes. Sugar The muscular system facilitates movements of our bodies, from reaching for the remote control to smashing out an intense workout in the boxing ring.When mucus (or snot) in your nose, dirt, and other debris get dry and clump together, it’s called a booger. InformedHealth.org [Internet]. Cologne, Germany: Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG); 2006-. How does the immune system work? [Updated 2020 Apr 23]. The reproductive system—*insert opening riff to Marvin Gaye's Let's get it on—allows us to uhh make babies. Alcohol also stays in women’s blood for longer. They have lower levels of the enzyme that breaks down alcohol.

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There are two subsystems within the immune system, known as the innate (non-specific) immune system and the adaptive (specific) immune system. Both of these subsystems are closely linked and work together whenever a germ or harmful substance triggers an immune response. These next parts are really cool, but you can't see them with just your own eyes! Doctors use special microscopes to look at these inner parts of the eye, such as the lens. After light enters the pupil, it hits the lens. The lens sits behind the iris and is clear and colorless. Cones sense color and they need more light than rods to work well. Cones are most helpful in normal or bright light. The retina has three types of cones. Each cone type is sensitive to one of three different colors — red, green, or blue — to help you see different ranges of color. Together, these cones can sense combinations of light waves that let our eyes to see millions of colors.Researching mental health and ways of improving it is a proactive step towards understanding yourself and looking after yourself better. You can practise this by discussing it with others or researching independently and trying out some of our self-care tiles to see what works for you. As the concentration of alcohol in your bloodstream increases, your behaviour and body functions change. At first, you may feel happy and less inhibited, but after several drinks you'll probably: The circulatory system acts as your body’s transport system. The electrically-charged heart muscle pumps blood throughout the body, delivering nutrients and oxygen to every cell via countless tiny capillaries.

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You may not be sober or safe to drive a vehicle. The legal alcohol limit for driving measures the amount of alcohol in your breath, blood or urine. Kidneys Fuel is important, but we also need a way to incorporate that fuel into the body. Digestion doesn’t start in the stomach, or even your mouth. Digestion actually starts in your brain! The better way to “change your oil” is by eating healthier fats and nutrients that support healthy cells in the first place. Reduce your toxic load, eat healthy non-inflammatory fats, and fill up on fat soluble vitamins like vitamin D3, vitamin A, and vitamin E. Proteins Take the brain for instance. At its simplest, the brain is a bundle of fat and protein. Fat myelinates your nerve cells and helps speed up communication. Proteins called peptides make up other parts of the brain and neurotransmitters. Glucose (sugar), ketones, and other polysaccharides fuel the brain with energy so we can carry out all our daily functions and think. The lens works much like the lens of a movie projector at the movies. Next time you sit in the dark theater, look behind you at the stream of light coming from the projection booth. This light goes through a powerful lens, which is focusing the images onto the screen, so you can see the movie clearly. In the eye's case, however, the film screen is your retina. What Does the Retina Do?You usually don’t have to think much about your breathing because your brain controls it automatically. When you have a lot of carbon dioxide—the waste gas produced by body processes—in your blood, your brain gets the message and tells your lungs to exhale and dispose of it. This action then causes you to inhale, drawing in air that eventually delivers oxygen to every cell in your body. This carefully regulated exhaling and inhaling takes place about 10 to 14 times each minute when you are breathing calmly.