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What is the process in which muscles contact to move food throughout the digestive system
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What is the process in which muscles contact to move food throughout the digestive system

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Food moves through your GI tract by a process called peristalsis. The large, hollow organs of your GI tract contain a layer of muscle that enables their walls to move.
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