esophagus

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"But then the fella went on. Diet Coke drinkers are more hardcore. Sure they may not drink Diet Coke all the time, sometimes they have water. But as a group, 100% of them are regular drinkers. Be warned, watch out! When the craving hits, nothing else can satisfy the hunger! First, your tongue goes dry. Then the whole esophagus is like the Atacama Desert (for those of you who don't want to Wiki that, its the driest desert in the world)."

Writer: BaconKitty

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:02 PM

What: "Basically your esophagus is like a bong. By pulling in that last little breath clears your lungs and gets all the smoke into your lungs from your throat."

Writer: Silky

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:05 PM

What: "In addition to growing in length, Foker's method has resulted in thickening and strengthening of the esophageal walls, the opposite of what happens with simple stretching. "The esophagus is like a python,"

Writer: John Foker, MD

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:10 PM

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"You swallow by choice, but once the swallow begins, the digestion process becomes involuntary and moves along under the control of the nerves. The esophagus is like a stretchy pipe that's about 10 inches (or 25 centimeters) long. It moves food from the back of your throat to your stomach."

Writer: Angie Best-Boss with David Edelberg, M.D.

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:11 PM

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"The esophagus is like a long slippery water slide. Muscles within your esophagus squeeze the food down towards your stomach. Whether you are standing up, laying down, or hanging upside down, you can safely swallow a bite of food, because the muscles within your esophagus know that their job is to send food in only one direction... towards your stomach."

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:09 PM

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"Your esophagus is like an elevator. To go down,;st swallow. To go up, press the up button located at the back of your throat.pleatetf-jeansYellow sponges in your mouth release saliva. Chewing squishes the Juices out.This is the liver." The link has a humorous diagram about digestion.

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:12 PM

What: "Than a special door opens called the epiglottis. It lets air come in and out and it makes sure food goes down a tube."..."This tube called the esophagus is like a pipe that squeezes food slowly down into the next phase in the stomach. The stomach is connected to the end of the esophagus."

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:19 PM

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"At rest, the esophagus is like a slender, flexible tube. As bulky foods move through, it stretches to expand around it as needed. Consider how a snake body expands around its prey when eating. Same thing! The upper portion of the esophagus is within the radiation field when the neck is being targeted. For this reason, it is important to swallow more bulky foods to ensure the regular "stretching" of this part of the esophagus. In this way, you are helping to discourage the fibrosis from taking a strong hold on the flexible muscular fibers of the esophagus."

Writer: Katrina M. Jensen, M.A., CCC-SLP, PLLC

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Date: Dec 29 2013 1:18 PM