The book, “Gulp; Adventure on the Alimentary Canal” is a non-fiction book written by the author Mary Roach in 2013. The author Mary Roach was born on March 20,1959 and was raised in Etna New Hampshire when after growing she succeeded in school and got a Bachelors of Arts from Wesleyan University in 1981 which is located in middletown Connecticut. Roach specialized in popular science and majored in psychology which has helped her with all her five published books being, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers published in 2003, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife published in 2005, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex published in 2008, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void published in 2010, and Gulp: Adventures
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The stomach is a very occupied part of the human body, it is very important since it has many very important functions in order to be alive. The stomach is a main topic that is interpreted throughout Roach’s book. The stomach is a really busy organ in the body and does a lot of work. The stomach is the machine where it breaks the food from big chunks rather than the mouth doing that. The stomach is in charge of that because people do not chew the food more than ten times therefore that becomes the stomach’s job. Roach explains the stomach process which she states “By delivering heaps poorly chewed we overtax the gut and pollute the cells’ that is why the people don’t break the food down in the mouth because they do not do the right amount of chewing. In chapter 12, Inflammable You; Fun with Hydrogen and Methane it mainly focuses on things that involve methane and hydrogen for example she tells us how cows have a methane rerouting system and those elements are not dangerous outside the …show more content…
Many of the small bumps that can be seen on the tongue contain taste buds. These surface cells send taste information to nearby nerve fibers, which send messages to the brain. Also why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? That is because the stomach doesn’t digest itself because it forms its own mucus barrier produced by goblet cells that prevent gastric juice from leaking into the lamina propria. Roach asks how much can you eat before your stomach bursts? If you hit the limit your stomach will burst; this is called gastro-intestinal rupture it is very rare, but it has happened. Lastly, she ask if constipation can kill you? Constipation is usually not a dangerous condition but if someone has an impacted intestine this can cause bacteria to form therefore it ca’nnot kill you. Saliva is also brought up throughout the book and she tells us how saliva has enzymes such as amylase and ptyalin to help break down sugar and it is an innate immune response. My response to this book was that it is a really interesting book with many different topics for people who have the intentions of learning about the human body, with a purpose to laugh with the humor she uses because she uses many myths and jokes to
The stomach is a very occupied part of the human body, it is very important since it has many very important functions in order to be alive. The stomach is a main topic that is interpreted throughout Roach’s book. The stomach is a really busy organ in the body and does a lot of work. The stomach is the machine where it breaks the food from big chunks rather than the mouth doing that. The stomach is in charge of that because people do not chew the food more than ten times therefore that becomes the stomach’s job. Roach explains the stomach process which she states “By delivering heaps poorly chewed we overtax the gut and pollute the cells’ that is why the people don’t break the food down in the mouth because they do not do the right amount of chewing. In chapter 12, Inflammable You; Fun with Hydrogen and Methane it mainly focuses on things that involve methane and hydrogen for example she tells us how cows have a methane rerouting system and those elements are not dangerous outside the …show more content…
Many of the small bumps that can be seen on the tongue contain taste buds. These surface cells send taste information to nearby nerve fibers, which send messages to the brain. Also why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? That is because the stomach doesn’t digest itself because it forms its own mucus barrier produced by goblet cells that prevent gastric juice from leaking into the lamina propria. Roach asks how much can you eat before your stomach bursts? If you hit the limit your stomach will burst; this is called gastro-intestinal rupture it is very rare, but it has happened. Lastly, she ask if constipation can kill you? Constipation is usually not a dangerous condition but if someone has an impacted intestine this can cause bacteria to form therefore it ca’nnot kill you. Saliva is also brought up throughout the book and she tells us how saliva has enzymes such as amylase and ptyalin to help break down sugar and it is an innate immune response. My response to this book was that it is a really interesting book with many different topics for people who have the intentions of learning about the human body, with a purpose to laugh with the humor she uses because she uses many myths and jokes to