Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong
eBook - ePub

Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction
  5. Body basics
  6. Same thing, different name
  7. Organs
  8. A miscellanea of dodgy folk tales
  9. The microscopic body
  10. Sex myths
  11. The hungry body
  12. Five food myths that don’t pass muster
  13. Body oddities
  14. An A-Z of quackery
  15. The body compromised
  16. Famous bodies
  17. Are you pronouncing it wrong?
  18. Other myths, misconceptions and misnomers
  19. Let’s make up a new wave of false facts
  20. Index
  21. Other titles in the series
  22. About the author
  23. Copyright