Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal is a nonfiction work by 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thing

Reviews

 * 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.