How does the body know the difference between water and food?

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How does the body know the difference between water and food?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

your body doesn’t. The stuff goes through your gi-tract, and material is absorbed into your bloodstream to support your body. Stuff you can’t/don’t absorb becomes part of feces. Your kidneys filter your bloodstream, and stuff they remove from it becomes urine.

Urine isn’t a direct line of ‘consumed fluid->pee.’

Anonymous 0 Comments

The body does not know the difference. Both water and food go the same way (stomach, then intenstine), and are processed in parallel.

Many foods have both liquid and solids mixed: fruits & vegetables, soups and porridges, even juices with pulp. So the stomach is well-adapted to processing them both at the same time.