Stocking a kitchen with your favorite ingredients can feel reassuring—you know you have everything for a quick dinner, snacks ...

Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects. "It's insane," says University of North Carolina ...

Chemical digestion occurs when the body uses enzymes to break down certain molecules, such as carbohydrates. This process allows the bloodstream to absorb smaller molecules to transport around the ...

A clear liquid diet is a specialized food plan that only provides nutrition found in liquids. This diet requires very little digestion while still providing some energy and enough fluid to prevent ...

The mouth starts the digestion process by breaking food down into a more easily digestible form. It does this through a combination of mechanical and chemical digestion. After people take food in ...