Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Roach Mary

Author:Roach, Mary [Roach, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2013-04-01T04:00:00+00:00

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* Though you do read case reports in which patients say they heard a bursting noise, the experience is more often described as a sensation, as in “a sensation of giving way.” The “sudden explosion” recalled by a seventy-two-year-old woman following a meal of cold meat, tea, and eight cups of water was more likely something she felt, not heard. (The old eight-cups-of-water-a-day advice should possibly be qualified with the clause, “but not all at once.”)

* With one exception. While the consumption record for many foods exceeds eight and even ten pounds, no one has ever been able to eat more than four pounds of fruit cake.

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