Body Machine
When you look down the street
What do you see?
The street is overflowin' with a lot of machines.
Now, I don't mean the buses, the trucks or cars
I'm talkin' 'bout the people
Yeah, you know who they are.
I'm a machine, you're a machine
Everybody that you know, you know they are machines
To keep your engine running, you need energy
For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Now I'd be a fool
If I said that the fuel
That we needed to burn was gasoline.
'Cause the fuel we use is the stuff called food
And it puts out the power for our machine.
You make a stop at the filling station
<Fill 'er up with chicken sandwich to go!>
As you start to chew, your body does it
All systems go!
<Now that sandwich contains some very important kinds of food energy
for your body. The chicken gives you protein. Bread: carbohydrate.
Mayonnaise: fat. And the lettuce has vitamins, plus cellulose or
roughage. Together, these things help keep your body machine
running smoothly.>
First the saliva, kind of like a driver
<Move to the rear of the mouth!>
But what it's doin'
Along with teeth that's chewin'
Is taking food and breaking it down.
Down to the stomach the food is pushed
The esophagus does its stuff (gulp, gulp!)
And the stomach starts...
<It's got no movin' parts!>
As the body machine churns up.
Gastric juices operate
On proteins, fats and carbohydrates
In the stomach they do what they do
To take out nutrition and use it for you.
Well the cellulose in those things you know
Will control the traffic flow
Helps the food to move along
So the good stays in and the bad gets gone.
I'm a machine, you're a machine
Everybody that you know, you know they are machines
To keep your engine running, you need energy
For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Then the small intestine
Does most of your digestin'
By sending all of the nutrients
In through the villi <Which look a little sill-i!>
But act as little vents.
The bloodstream passes
The nutrients it catches
And takes them to the cells you see
You use what it delivers
<And store some in the liver>
For future energy.
I'm a machine, you're a machine
Everybody that you know, you know they are machines
To keep your engine running, you need energy
For your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Your high-powered, revved-up body machine.
Your high-powered, revved-up, complicated tuned-up
Fascinatin' body machine.
<Take care of that machine, you got such a great model there, honey!>
<Give it the right fuel - high protein, low calory.>
<Take it out for a spin every day!>
Ben Braver wrote:
>If you remember being "tuaght" that the body absorbs "nutriets", I think you have a great chance of someday becoming President of the United States!!
>-Ben
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>>Hey guys, i remember being tuaght in school that the body absorbs
>>nutriets from the food through the "villis" that are inside one of the
>>intestines. What i wonder is, does it absorb all the nutrients??
>>since it's only brushing against the surface of the "food", how can it
>>get
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>everything?
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