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A healthy diet with plenty of nutrients can promote a healthy digestive system - which is essential if you want to make the most of the food that you're putting into your body. The digestive system is quite complex, and consists of two parts; the upper digestive system and the lower digestive system. The digestive system consists of collection of digestive organs, all linked to the alimentary, or digestive, tube - which if removed from your body and stretched out would be around 30 feet long! The absence of a healthy diet can lead to many digestion problems, so it pays to look after yourself.

Food that we take in as part of a (hopefully) healthy diet is broken down by the digestive system, enabling our body to absorb the essential nutrients from the smaller, more simple molecules that have been created by this process. These nutrients give us the energy that we need and help with the growth and repair of all of the different tissues found in the human body. The digestive system breaks down carbohydrates into simple sugars, fats into fatty acids, and complex proteins into various non-essential and essential amino acids.