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Article: Organ of the Week; The Stomach
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- Los Angeles Sentinel
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- February 19, 2003
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Miller, Ian
Los Angeles Sentinel
02-19-2003
Located near the center of the body is a weird looking bag of muscle that
causes a great number of people nowadays a lot of harm. The organ I am
talking about is the stomach and indeed, it is a very crucial organ in our
everyday existence.
The two organs connected to the stomach are the esophagus and the small
intestine. It is the stomach's job to receive chewed food mass from the
esophagus, add digestive juices such as pepsin and hydrochloric acid to
this food mass, partially digest it and pass most of it on to the small
intestine. The small intestine is the site of the majority of the body's
digestion although carbohydrates are actually digested in the ...