
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong
About this book
A highly entertaining book debunking the many myths about the human body.Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrongdebunks the scientific myths we all take for granted. Written by author Matt Brown in his trademark humourous style, this book takes you through all the facts we thought true, from bodily blunders, medical mis-quotes and curious cures. Does giving kids sugar make them go hyper-active? Not at all – there is no proven link! Is there such a thing as being 'double-jointed'? And is it dangerous to swim after eating?Covering everything from pseudoscience to recent research, Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong shatters a range of illusions we have accepted unquestioningly since childhood and demystifies this most puzzling of subjects.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Body basics
- Same thing, different name
- Organs
- A miscellanea of dodgy folk tales
- The microscopic body
- Sex myths
- The hungry body
- Five food myths that don’t pass muster
- Body oddities
- An A-Z of quackery
- The body compromised
- Famous bodies
- Are you pronouncing it wrong?
- Other myths, misconceptions and misnomers
- Let’s make up a new wave of false facts
- Index
- Other titles in the series
- About the author
- Copyright