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Gulp [electronic resource] : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Roach, Mary2013
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The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, comical intersection of delight and disgust that is eating(and what comes after).Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans 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 700 times would yield double the vitamins? And did Elvis actually die from constipation?In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs and enema exorcists, stomach slugs, rectum-examining prison guards, and competitive hot dog eaters as she investigates the beginning – and the end – of our food.
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Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Oneworld Publications, 2013
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9781780742199
Language:
English
BRN:
2590330
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