Title: Gulp
Author: Mary Roach
Review:
When I finished this book I turned to my husband and said, “wow
that was so interesting.” He commented
back, “Mary knows how to make science readable and enjoyable for anyone.” I would have to agree with that, I loved this
book. I knew a few things she talked
about – c-diff – I had a friend who had the procedure done and it cured her –
the whole house would smell when she used the bathroom until she had this done –
gross but what is more gross I ask you?
The smell is awful with C-diff so I think a bit of donor bowel is not such
a back thing compared to the odor.
If you
are interested at all in what you eat and how your digestive system works this
is a great book to read. Great knowledge
to share at a party and so interesting to boot.
Saliva has healing properties?
Who knew – dogs did but not me. I
can’t imagine that not everyone would find this book fascinating.
Mary
Roach had been recommended to me by my husband and several other friends who
know I love to read and they were correct.
This book is a trip through the alimentary canal and back – can people
be fed bottom up? Why are colonics so
popular? Do they actually do anything at
all? Well read this book and find out.
Mary
had also written about space, sex, and dead bodies – I will be reading those
books next – Check her out – science for everyone to read and understand. Loved it!!!!
Published: Published April 1st 2013 by W. W.Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393081572
Page
Count: 348
Quick
Review: 5 out 5 stars –
Why I Read
this Title: Picked up at my local library
Synopsis: The irresistible, ever-curious, and always
best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we
carry around inside.
“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington
Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour of our insides. The
alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions inspired by our
insides are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as
surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is
crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find names for flavors and
smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your
stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? We meet
scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks—or has the courage—to
ask. And we go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a bacteria transplant,
and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal.
Like all of Roach’s books, Gulp is as much about
human beings as it is about human bodies.
Author
Information: Mary Roach is
the author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science
Tackles the Afterlife. Her writing has appeared in such publications as Salon,
GQ, Vogue, and the New York Times Magazine. She lives in Oakland, California.
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