Food and Growth

Duration: 12 min.

Genre: Educational | Medical

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Church

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Explains the functions of the mouth, stomach, and intestines in food digestion. Shows how food is carried by the circulatory system to the cells, allowing cell division and growth., Details the process of digestion from the intake of food to its ingestion into a body cell, explaining the functions of the mouth, stomach, and intestine in the process. Visualizes each stage of digestion through endoscopy, photomicrography, fluoroscopy, and time-lapse photography. Depicts the process of mitosis as the final stage of digestion, leading to cell division and growth. Revised version of Exploring Your Growth.

Complete Record: , Explains the functions of the mouth, stomach, and intestine in the digestion of food. Shows how food is carried by the circulatory system to the cells, allowing cell division and growth., Shows a feeding experiment with white rats, actually carried on in a sixth-grade classroom. Demonstrates the food value of milk as compared with the values of coffee and candy., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.