Nonfiction Responses

The nonfiction book I am currently reading is The Muscular System written by Dr. Alvin Silverstein, Virginia Silverstein, and Robert Silverstein. Currently, I am in the second section discussing about the  skeletal muscles of humans. Skeletal muscles are muscles that work with bones of the skeleton. The section is all about our (us humans) muscular and how they work. Overall, there are about 640- 850 muscles in the human body. There are three types of muscles called skeletal, visceral, and cardiac.

A passage that intrigues me would certainly have to be this, " Your entire skeleton is covered with muscles. The combined weight of your muscles is about three times as much as that of your bones. In fact, muscles weigh more than any other type of tissue in the body. Skeletal muscles allow you to move your arms, legs, hand, and other body parts. Skeletal muscles surround the mouth cavity and form most of the tongue. They surround the body cavities and separate the chest and abdomen. Skeletal muscles attached to the outer layer of the eyeball move the eyes". The reason why I choose this passage since it gives many facts about the skeletal muscles. Before reading this book, I thought that the human body only had 100 muscles that were for the most important parts of the body.

After reading this book, I've learned many important things about the muscular system. For sure I wouldn't forget about the part about the Achilles Tendon. This particular tendon is the most strongest tendon out of all of them in the human body. If it were to be torn, you couldn't run and barely walk.
This book has taught me things that I haven't even known about yet.

Tendon-  a flexible but inelastic cord of strong fibrous collagen tissue attaching a muscle to a bone.

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