Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Macon. 1  Sunrise: 07:09AM. 2  Sunset: 08:00PM. 3  Day length: 12h 51m. 4  Solar noon: 01:34PM. 5  The current local time in Macon is 94 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.
1 The mixing action of the stomach walls allows mechanical digestion to occur in the stomach. 2  The smooth muscles of the stomach produce contractions known as mixing waves that mix the boluses of food with gastric juice.
Your digestive system breaks the food you eat down into small molecules that your intestines can absorb into the bloodstream. Two separate processes are at work. Mechanical digestion involves the physical breakdown of food into smaller chunks. This is what happens when you chew. Chemical digestion, which is the next phase, breaks food into smaller molecules. Digestive enzymes assist with chemical digestion.