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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal is a non-fiction work by the science author Mary Roach, published in April 2013 by W.W. Norton & Company.

Gulp adventures on the alimentary canal

Reviews

Maslin, Janet (April 4, 2013). Food and You, From One End to the Other. Books of the Times (The New York Times). Retrieved June 1, 2013.

Publishers Weekly. (January 21, 2013) Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Starred Review (Publishers Weekly.) Retrieved June 1, 2013.

Topics covered

The book covers 17 topics:

Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste

I'll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you.

Liver and Opinions: Why we eat what we eat and despise the rest

The Longest Meal: Can thorough chewing lower the national debt?

Hard to Stomach: The acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin.

Spit Gets a Polish: Someone ought to bottle the stuff

A Bolus of Cherries: Life at the oral processing lab

Big Gulp: How to survive being swallowed alive

Dinner's Revenge: Can the eaten eat back?

Stuffed: The science of eating yourself to death

Up Theirs: The alimentary canal as criminal accomplice

Inflammable You: Fun with hydrogen and methane

Dead Man's Bloat: And other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research.

Smelling a Rat: Does noxious flatus do more than clear a room?

Eating Backward: Is the digestive tract a two-way street?

I'm All Stopped Up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation.

The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thing

References

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Wikipedia

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