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Index
Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Introduction
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 Backwards: Is the digestive tract a two-way street?
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
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
About the Author
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