The remarkable properties of our gastric juices were first revealed, in part, by a young French-Canadian fur-trader name Alexis St. Martin. He was accidentally shot in 1822, and when the wound healed ...

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. Gulp ...

If you want to know everything that happens to a piece of food between the grocery store and the toilet, these are the books you want to read. But in a fight between Gulp, by Mary Roach and Gut, by ...

Sometime before Mary Roach’s new book got the title “Gulp,” I like to think, that’s what her editor did in mock, cartoonish panic on hearing that the author planned to dive into the human digestive ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Just how and why did Elvis Presley die on the toilet? What is a “prison wallet”? Which sex is the greater offender flatulence-wise? If these are the kinds of questions that consume you, you will ...