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Why You Shouldn't Eat Your Boogers and Other Useless or Gross Information About Your Body: Information About Your Body
You: The Owners Manual meets The Book of Useless Information in this fun and quirky guide to little known facts about the human body.
This delightful book is full of random and, at times, scatological facts about the human anatomy. Broken down by the systems of the body, it answers questions you may be too embarrassed to ask or even think about, such as:
- Do bugs live in...more
This delightful book is full of random and, at times, scatological facts about the human anatomy. Broken down by the systems of the body, it answers questions you may be too embarrassed to ask or even think about, such as:
- Do bugs live in...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
April 17th 2008
by Tarcher
(first published 2008)
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Maria (Ri)
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This was a great book for its kind, much better than, say Why Do Men Have Nipples, for example. The question and answer format makes for easy reading in little spurts which is nice for my tired mommy brain! I mostly found the information accurate and interesting. As a naturopathic doctor, I was especially fascinated to learn that bowel movements are 2/3 bacteria and only 1/3 fiber, cholesterol, bile salts, food bits, etc! That is A LOT of bacterial material! My only quibble is with the titl...more
Why you shouldnt eat your boogers by Francesca Gould is a book about your body.You learn new things on every page.It is also non-fiction so even if stuff seems weird it is true.You can also prove people wrong by reading this books because it tells you about myths that people think and tell you the real meaning.
But this book is not good. Its boring because there is no excitment in the book.Most things you learn about is not even important,and just get los...more
But this book is not good. Its boring because there is no excitment in the book.Most things you learn about is not even important,and just get los...more
Funny little book about body concerns and fluids, etc. It has a bunch of tidbits about customs and attitudes and funky pieces of information about so much random stuff throughout history...almost like a fun and light biology and anthropology lesson. However, it does contain a bunch of stuff that a lot of people wouldn't like to think about or ever know. I was laughing and kinda grossed out at the same time. Pretty neat!
Many incredibly (and, yes, disgusting or weird) things about our bodies. Sometimes the explanations weren't as thorough as I would have liked, but it was rather intriguing all the same.
I enjoyed every nasty little fact this book had to offer. It was great for grossing out my friends and coworkers during meals.
Laurie
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Lots of information on how the body works and why it does the things it does.
Wow...what don't you learn from this book? All about boogers, poo, bugs that live on your skin...etc. It's very, very interesting...and fun!
an interesting book from the UK....it doesn't delve into some ideas enough and left me wondering.
A must-read for those of us in search of guilty pleasures or gross thrills!
As far as fact-books go, this one didn't really have much in the way of new or very interesting information. I'd heard most of the facts before, and the ones I hadn't weren't anything I had ever particularly wondered before. Meh.
Mildly amusing..................
This book was really interesting!
sucker for trivia books
Very informative.
This was a weird book that made me aware of how disgusting everything around me is.
I love trivia books because you can set them down and pick them up at will. I like to read them in short bursts. This one is classic because it answers some questions that people usually wouldn't dare to ask, like could you drink your own urine? (Yes, technically you could, but EWWWW). A very fun read, and perfect for mothers of small children who always want to know 'why'.
I just like reading crazy things like this. Easy to read.
Some interesting medical and human anatomy factoids.
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