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	Search Ways To Shop Brands Natural_Remedies Departments Chapter List For: The Female Body: An Owner's Manual: Introduction Achilles Tendon Adrenal Glands Ankles Appendix Arteries Back Belly Button Birth Control Birthmarks Bladder Blood Body Hair Body Type Brain Breasts Cervix Childbirth Chin Circulatory System Clitoris Collarbone Digestive System Ears Elbows Emotions Endocrine System Energy Esophagus Eyes Fallopian Tubes Fat Feet Fertility Fingernails Gallbladder Gums Gynecological Exam Hair Hands Heart Hips Hormones Intestines Jaw Joints Kidneys Knees Larynx and Vocal Cords Lips Liver Lungs Lymphatic System Medical Tests Menopause Menstrual Cycle Moles Mouth Muscular System Neck Nervous System Nose Nutrition Ovaries Pain Relief Pancreas Pelvis Pregnancy Rectum Reproductive System Respiratory System Ribs Salivary Glands Scalp Sex Sexually Transmitted Diseases Shins Shoulders Sinuses Skeletal System Skin Skull Spine Spleen Stomach Stress Sweat Glands Tailbone Tear Ducts Teeth Throat Thyroid Toenails Tongue Tonsils Underarms Urinary System Urine Uterus Vagina Veins Vulva Wrists Shaping Up The Total Body Shaping Workoout Abdominals Biceps Buttocks Calves Chest Forearms Neck3 Shoulders3 Thighs Triceps Aerobic Conditioning		Library Home > All Books > The Female Body: An Owner's Manual > Digestive System From the Rodale book, The Female Body: An Owner's Manual: Edit id 1042 Digestive System Digestive System Many interconnected organs digest and absorb the food we eat and rid the body of waste from that process. But problems can arise. * Heartburn is caused by a too-relaxed muscle at the bottom of the esophagus. (See "Eat small, eat early" on page 107.) * Ulcers are caused when the lining of the stomach erodes. (See "A Whole Other Matter" on page 390.) * You may have dyspepsia if a normal dinner makes you feel uncomfortably full. (See "Burn Baby Burn" on page 390.) * Sometimes your bowels get in an uproar--gas, bloating, diarrhea--and you don''''t know why. To identify some likely culprits, see "Intestines" on page 183. * The gallbladder shoots bile into the small intestine to help it break down food. But sometimes bile forms painful gallstones. (See "Scaling Back Your Risk" on page 152.) * Your pancreas makes the hormone insulin, which helps your body absorb its food. Sometimes the pancreas stops making enough, and the result is adult-onset diabetes. (See "Finding Out Where You Stand" on page 306.)

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