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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach (Paperback, 2013)

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Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal - let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? Was self-styled `nutritional economist' Horace Fletcher right to persuade millions of people that chewing a bite of shallot seven hundred times would yield double the vitamins? In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, and many more as she investigates the beginning, and the end, of our food.

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Publisher
One World Publications
ISBN-13
9781851689934
eBay Product ID (ePID)
141410707

Product Key Features

Publication Year
2013
Subject
Science, Psychiatry
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Type
Textbook
Author
Mary Roach
Format
Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
216 mm
Item Width
135 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
Mary Roach

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