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An overview of the digestive system and how it works.

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Like the others in the Healthy Body series of the Encyclopedia of Health, this is an expensive volume, padded with the same long introduction and foreword that are repeated in each book. There is also a five-page appendix of minimally useful information, made up mainly of state-by-state addresses of university centers for digestive research. The remaining 70 pages of text read like a good magazine article, giving a useful overview of the subject and including discussion of nutrients, physiology, digestive disorders, and of how to eat right and achieve good digestion. The chapter on the history of discoveries and research in the field is strangely titled "The History of Digestion." Includes occasional black-and-white photographs and clear, simple diagrams; bibliography; technical glossary; index; no notes. Gr. 6-12. --Hazel ~Rochman