Labels:daily OCR: LIVER "HE LIVER IS the largest organ in the human body weighing about 1.5 kg(3 pounds) It lies next to the stomach in the upper- right part of the abdomen, below thin sheet of muscle known the diaphragm. The liver has many vital functions. These include: storing sugars and releasing them into the blood or con verting them into useful chemicals: building proteins; and cleansing the blood of poisons before disposing them in bile (digestive liquid secreted by the liver). The heat produced from all these activities helps to maintain your tem perature iver
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