Don't Swallow Your Gum!: Myths, Half-Truths, and Outright Lies About Your Body and Health

This book will change your life....or at least make you less stupid. Our parents and friends have told us a lot of lies...this book helps to spread the truth. Haleluah!! All joking aside, this book is written quite well, and also presents the facts in a "hard to dispute" way. It may make some of your friends mad at you...it did with me (apparently people like to think that a dogs mouth is cleaner than a humans' mouth...even though they usually eat whatever comes out of them). I would highly recommend this book.

Entertaining. Parents especially should read this so they don't lie to their children. This book reinforces that people are dumb and you need to think critically.

I knew most of these myths, but it was fun reading this book. It is a read for all ages. No, gum does not make your insides stick together, and many more myths are cleared up. This book really made me laugh out loud. It is chalked with facts about the human body, and written tastefully with a rye sense of humor!

I had high hopes for this book, but it just didn't deliver. Lots of old information, much of which has been superseded by better and more reliable science. Sure, it resolved a few arguments at the dinner table, but a lot of the information is just common sense if you have a basic knowledge of science. For a lay audience it is probably more interesting, but for anyone with a modicum of medical knowledge, boring. Also the book was "padded" quite a bit - it is actually a very very short book (read it in one afternoon), but the index and reference sections (the former being completely unnecessary for a book of this size) bought the page total up by 1/3.

I have both books by this author they are just fun to look stuff up in.

Well this book has made me feel silly . I believed many of the Myth's they talk about and i have helped pass along many of the wife's tales as fact .

good book

This takes on all those mom things we are brought up with. It uses science to eliminate the real from the "do not do that" myths.

The book started strong but it became boring and repetitive from the middle of it.

Great gift for Christmas when it is hard to think what to buy.Surprising that lots of so called health 'knowledge' we grew up with is not actually true!Could be grand gift for a hypochondriac, not that I had this in mind at the time.

Great book full of myth busters, well worth a read

I loved this book and found it very interesting! Give answers to questions and myths we have all thought about!

Sencilla y amena explicación sobre mitos y falsas creencias relacionadas con la salud. Como se originaron, si tienen alguna base científica, que hay de cierto, etc. Por ejemplo, la moda de beber dos litros de agua al día, o la vitamina C o el zinc para el resfriado, que o no sirven para nada o directamente causan daño.