CHAPTER 30: Digestive and
Excretory Systems
- General Anatomy of the Ruminant Digestive System
- How do cows and other ruminants digest their food? How does
a calf digest its milk? Read about the complex digestive tract
of these animals at the Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval
System.
- Food For Thought: An Interview with Nutrition Scientist Dr. Paul Saltman
- Dr. Saltman, a nutritionist at the University of California-San
Diego, combats myths about nutrition in this interview by Access
Excellence. Learn more about primate diets, essential nutrients,
antioxidants, fat, cholesterol, nutritional supplements, and
exercise from this informative article.
- CNN Interactive Food
- Information on nutrition and recipes abound at this CNN website.
Whether you are looking for quick facts on vitamin C or are curious
about the nutritional content of the lunch you just ate, you're
likely to find it here.
- Mayo Clinic Food & Nutrition Center
- This resource center includes articles, quizzes, recipes, and the opportunity to ask questions of a Mayo dietician. Reference articles discuss lactose intolerance, vitamins, and common diet and nutrition questions.
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- Digestive System
- To get to this part of the BodyQuest human anatomy site, click on Intestines under Find. Here you can learn about digestion, view graphics, and test your knowledge by playing a game.
- Digestive Organs
- These brief descriptions of the organs of the digestive system,
including the liver, pancreas, and gall bladder
come from the Texas
Virtual Clinic, a Web site of the University of Texas-Houston.
- Your Digestive System and How It Works
- This fact sheet describes the muscle movements, secretions, control and methods of digestion. It comes from The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health.
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30.3 HEALTH OF THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
- The Texas Virtual Clinic
- This excellent website from The University of Texas-Houston
Medical School describes digestive problems
and diseases.
However, the best part of this site is the collection of case
studies, in which you will follow real medical cases of obesity,
cholecystitis (gallstones), colon cancer, and appendicitis. The
cases are described by the patients and doctors involved in the
cases and are accompanied by remarkable photographs of the patients
in surgery.
- Introduction to Vitamins
- Take your vitamins! If a mother's threats aren't enough to
scare you, this web page from Indiana State University will.
Though the page contains technical-sounding jargon, you can still
skim it to learn what happens to humans when they are deprived
of a particular vitamin.
- Burning off the fat
- How many calories does your favorite workout burn per minute?
What if you were just shopping? Use this online calculator from MSNBC to help you work out your exercise routine.
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- Excretory/Urinary System
- Why do doctors place blowfly larvae on open, infected wounds? Why do you have to change the water in your fish's aquarium? Why should people with gout avoid tea and chocolate? Believe it or not, the answers to these questions all have to do with the excretory system. Learn about the different types of nitrogenous wastes produced by different animals from these Clermont College lecture notes.
- Excretory System
- To get to this part of the BodyQuest human anatomy site, click on Excretory System under Find. Here you can learn about the kidneys and other excretory organs and view graphics of them.
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- Human Anatomy Online
- To get to the interactive tutorial of the urinary (excretory)
systems, click the kidneys/bladder button. Roll over the image,
then roll over the multicolored diamonds to learn the name of
each structure. Click on the labels that pop up for a longer
description of that structure. If the pop-up label has a magnifying
glass icon, click on the glass for a detailed diagram of that
structure. Pages on related topics are available beneath the
graphic.
- Kidney Stones in Adults
- What causes kidney stones, how are they diagnosed, and how
do you treat and prevent them? These are some of the questions
answered in this online pamphlet from The National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a division of
the National Institutes of Health. Other diseases and disease
statistics are given at Patient
Information on Kidney Diseases and Patient
Information on Urologic Diseases.
- The Nephron Information Center
- Learn more about kidney disease, dialysis, and transplantation
through NIC's extensive collection of links. You can find out
regional information on dialysis
or kidney transplants or take a look at a virtual
dialysis machine.
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