Inside my body Lets have a look inside

Inside my body

Let’s have a look inside. This picture shows the main organs of your body. What are they called?

brain heart liver large intestine Let’s have a look at them in more detail. lungs stomach small intestine skin

It is a bit like your body’s own control centre. It sends messages to the rest of your body. Your brain needs oxygen from blood to work properly. Nearly 2, 000 liters of blood flow through the brain every day!

Your body needs oxygen to stay alive. When you breathe in, oxygen enters your lungs. Here, the oxygen goes into your bloods.

Your heart is like a pump but it is really a muscle. It's located a little to the left of the middle of your chest. The heart sends blood around your body. The blood provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients.

The liver is the largest organ inside your body. The liver helps the body eliminate toxins.

When you eat food passes into your stomach and stays there for two-and-a-half to three hours. Your stomach muscles squash the food until it is a creamy pulp. Your stomach produces juices to break down the food and kill germs you may have swallowed.

Your intestines are in two parts. The small intestine The large intestine

Your small intestine is a narrow tube that is about 6 or 7 metres long. When food leaves your stomach it comes here so that nutrients can be absorbed back into the body. Water and food that cannot be digested pass into your large intestine and come out of your body as waste.

Your skin covers and protects everything inside your body. Skin is always renewing itself. Every minute of the day we lose about 30, 000 dead skin cells and get new skin cells.

There are many others, too many for us to look at now. Let’s just look at a couple more that are important.

The kidneys are every bit as important as the heart. You need at least one kidney to live! Kidneys is to filter the waste out of the blood. The waste that is collected combines with water to make urine.

The bladder is a bag that collects the urine that leaves the kidneys. The bladder It sends message to your brain and you go to the toilet.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at some of your body’s organs. Let’s see how many you brain remember. heart liver small bladder intestine lungs stomach kidneys large intestine skin