How Does the Human Body Turn Food into Useful Energy?
As with just about everything else involving the human body, it is absolutely amazing that we can chow down on various things and somehow use this basic action to grow, move, breathe, and all other kinds of stuff. You probably expect that the process is complicated, and it is. Pick up a textbook on biochemistry if you need to be convinced of that. On the other hand, the basic idea is pretty simple. I’m going to address the simple part in this column. Food contains stored energy. You put energy into it (digestive processes) to get useful energy out of it. Brian Diskin Consider This Suppose you…
