How Does Blood Get Oxygen?

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Tip 1 - How Blood Carries Oxygen

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Bruce Codagnone | permalink

Every part of our body needs oxygen to live. Oxygen hitches a ride with our blood to get everywhere it needs to go. Find out how oxygen gets into our blood and how it travels inside our body.
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Tip 2 - Breathing - How Oxygen Travels in the Body

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Eva Ledezma | permalink

When we breathe, oxygen gets into our bodies. How does it travel from our lungs to other places, like the

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Tip 3 - How Does Blood Get to the Muscles in the Human Body? | LIVESTRONG.COM

Published: 9 years, 5 month(s) ago | Submitted by Ricardo Fortes | permalink

Blood carries nutrients and oxygen to the tissues of the body, including the muscles. A complex network of blood vessels, called arteries, takes the blood from the heart to the muscles. Then a different set of blood vessels, called veins, takes deoxygenated blood from the muscles back to the heart and gets rid of waste products that build up in the...

For further reading: http://www.livestrong.com/article/292708-how-does-blood-get-to-the-muscles-in-the-human-body/ ^[3]