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Our body is more or less under the control of hormones. Whether it’s our brain, our stomach or any other organ, the communication between them is possible because of these regulatory substances. So, the process from the beginning of eating food till its complete digestion is also stimulated by the hormones. The digestion of food is a detailed process to use the food nutrients in generating energy for your body.

What happens as the food is in the mouth?

As you take in a bite the teeth start chewing, the saliva starts digesting the carbohydrates and the tongue rolls food down the oesophagus. The main procedure then begins in the stomach, the pouch of your digestive tube.

What does stomach do?

The walls of the stomach are strong and muscular digesting the food into much smaller parts by the secretion of HCL and mucus. Due to these chemicals the proteins and amino acids in the food are digested further. The remaining stuff is then forwarded to the small intestine, the neatly coiled 20 feet long organ.

What’s the role of small intestine?

The small intestine has its own way of digesting food using the digestive juices produced from the gall bladder, pancreas and the liver.

What’s the role of large intestine?

The long journey of your beloved food comes to an end when it reaches the large intestine or colon. It absorbs only water from the leftover and converts it into the bundles of waste finally pushing it out of the body.

This is the natural journey of food but what happens when you eat a lot?

An average human stomach has the capacity to eat 1 or 1 and ½ litres of food at a time but it can be stretched 4 times till a tragedy occurs. Every process in our body is controlled by the brain, it’s the mastermind, after all. So, as you eat, a hormone called Leptin is produced by the fat cells which combine with the receptors in the brain telling you that you are full. But as the food in your plate drives you crazy you ignore the message and continue to hog on, and here all the problems fly in.

When you eat more than your stomach’s capacity, the secretion of Leptin increases and a point comes when it stops secreting resulting into no messages from the brain. The receptors are not able to tell you that you are full hence leading you to eat more and more. This is how you gain weight.

Nowadays, the trend of fast food and other fat rich foods has degraded the eating habits of people. Most of you are not able to eat on time leading you to eat more whenever you sit down to have something. This habit and diet needs to be changed as this is the need of the hour because if obesity strikes you, it can prove out to be very harmful.