Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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

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.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4]
The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thing

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.

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Beaumont, William. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. Edinburgh: Maclachlan and Stewart, 1838.
Beazell, J.M., and A. C. Ivy. "The Quality of Colonic Flatus Excreted by the 'Normal' Individual." American Journal of Digestive Diseases 8 (4): 128-132 (1941).
Nichopoulos, George (with Rose Clayton Phillips). The King and Dr. Nick: What Really Happened to Elvis and Me. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2009.

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