Explains the process of digestion, detailing how food is transformed into simpler substances that can be absorbed into the ...

A Brief Tour Of The Alimentary Canal, From Spit To You Know What : Shots - Health News If you didn't know that spit makes a great spot remover or where prison inmates smuggle cellphones, author ...

So—if you assume as I did that Mary Roach’s Gulp will be straight narration down the alimentary canal (into the mouth, down the throat, into the stomach, into the intestines and beyond)—you ...

For all our talk about food, we don't like to think much about it after we put it in our mouths. But Mary Roach — whose latest book is Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal — did just that ...

The science writer now brings her deep insight into our deep insides in her book Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. Mary Roach was our guest on The Current in April.

Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal Mary Roach. Norton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-08157-2. Roach (Stiff) once again goes boldly into the fields of strange science.

Mary Roach’s extensive tour of the alimentary canal is full of delicious detours and juicy anecdotes. ... It’s alimentary. Alex Hutchinson. Special to The Globe and Mail. Published April 12, 2013.

Nature - The Goulstonian Lectures on the Sensibility of the Alimentary Canal Delivered at the Royal College of Physicians on March 14, 16, and 21, 1911. Skip to main content.