04x03 - The Body Machine

[bunniefuu]

[narrator] And to begin The Body Machine.

[bus horn honking]

♪ When you look down the street
What do you see ♪

♪ The street is overflowing
With a lot of machines ♪

♪ Now I don't mean the buses
The trucks or cars ♪

♪ I'm talking about the people
Yeah, you know who they are ♪

♪ I'm a machine
You're a machine ♪

♪ Everybody that you know
You know, they are machines ♪

♪ To keep your engine running
You need energy ♪

♪ For your high-powered
Revved-up body machine ♪

♪ Your high-powered
Revved-up body machine ♪

♪ Now I'd be a fool
If I said that the fuel ♪

♪ That we needed to burn was gasoline ♪

♪ Because the fuel we use
Is the stuff called food ♪

♪ And it puts out the power
For our machine ♪

♪ You make a stop
At the filling station ♪

Fill 'er up! One chicken sandwich to go!

♪ As you start to chew
Your body does it ♪

♪ All systems go ♪

[chef] Now that sandwich contains
some very important kinds

of food energy for your body.

The chicken gives you protein,
bread, carbohydrates,

mayonnaise, fat, and the lettuce had
vitamins, plus cellulose, or roughage.

Together, these things help keep your body
machine running smoothly.

♪ First the saliva
Kind of like a driver ♪

Move to the rear of the mouth!

♪ But what it's doing
Along with teeth a-chewing ♪

♪ Is taking food and breaking it down ♪

♪ Down to the stomach
The food is pushed ♪

♪ The esophagus does its stuff ♪

♪ And the stomach starts ♪
Look at those moving parts!

♪ As the body machine churns up ♪

♪ Gastric juices operate ♪

♪ On proteins, fats, and carbohydrates ♪

♪ In the stomach
They do what they do ♪

♪ They take out nutrition
And use it for you ♪

♪ And the cellulose
In those leaves, you know ♪

♪ Will control the traffic flow ♪

♪ Helps the food to move along ♪

-♪ So the good stays in ♪
-♪ And the bad gets gone ♪

[both] ♪ I'm a machine
You're a machine ♪

♪ Everybody that you know
You know, they are machines ♪

♪ To keep your engine running
You need energy ♪

♪ For your high-powered
Revved-up body machine ♪

♪ Your high-powered
Revved-up body machine ♪

♪ Then the small intestine
Does most of your digestin' ♪

♪ By sending all the nutrients ♪

-♪ In through the villi ♪
-♪ Which look a little "silli" ♪

♪ But act as little vents ♪

♪ The blood stream passes
The nutrients it catches ♪

♪ And takes them to the cells
You see ♪

♪ You use what it delivers ♪

♪ And it stores
some in the liver ♪

♪ For future energy ♪

[both] ♪ I'm a machine
You're a machine ♪

♪ Everybody that you know
You know, they are machines ♪

♪ To keep your engine running
You need energy ♪

♪ For your high-powered
Revved-up body machine ♪

♪ Your high-powered
Revved-up body machine ♪

♪ High-powered, revved up
Complicated tuned-up ♪

♪ Fascinating body machine ♪

[piano]

Take care of that machine.
You got such a great model there, honey.

Give it the right fuels:
high protein, low calorie.

Take it out for a spin every day.