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Gulp : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach; OverDrive, Inc is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Gulp : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal about?
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 yiel
Who reads Gulp : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mary Roach; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton & Company
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781780742199
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Medical, Science, Medicine
- Rating
- 3.92 / 5 (328 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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