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Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal

Mary Roach
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
Print Book, English, 2014
W.W. Norton & Co, New York, 2014
348 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780393348743, 0393348741
878509931
Machine generated contents note: 1. Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste
2.I'll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you
3. Liver and Opinions: Why we eat what we eat and despise the rest
4. The Longest Meal: Can thorough chewing lower the national debt?
5. Hard to Stomach: The acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin
6. Spit Gets a Polish: Someone ought to bottle the stuff
7.A Bolus of Cherries: Life at the oral processing lab
8. Big Gulp: How to survive being swallowed alive
9. Dinner's Revenge: Can the eaten eat back?
10. Stuffed: The science of eating yourself to death
11. Up Theirs: The alimentary canal as criminal accomplice
12. Inflammable You: Fun with hydrogen and methane
13. Dead Man's Bloat: And other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research
14. Smelling a Rat: Does noxious flatus do more than clear a room?
15. Eating Backward: Is the digestive tract a two-way street? Contents note continued: 16.I'm All Stopped Up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation
17. The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thing