It Takes Guts: How Your Body Turns Food Into Fuel (and Poop) is an excellent and comprehensive overview of the human digestive system by Dr. Jennifer Gardy, a scientist who is so interested in the digestive system she has swallowed a tiny camera to explore her own stomach and intestines. Along with illustrator Belle Wuthrich, Dr. Gardy has created a highly entertaining and education book.
It Takes Guts starts at the beginning when you put food in your mouth, and the book takes the reader through all the different parts and processes of digestion. Each part of the digestive system has its own chapter, allowing for lots of information to be presented and digested by readers. Readers are taken down the esophagus and through the stomach and intestines to see how the body gets nutrients from food and what happens to the leftovers. In addition to the basics of how the digestive system works, the book contains plenty of extra facts and information that will be fun for readers, including burping in space, why it can seem like you have a dessert stomach, why you feel like you have butterflies in your stomach when you are nervous, a brief history of the toilet, and the uses that poop can be put to.
very cool how the body works second favorite
It takes guts was a very interesting book!! I learned a lot about the body and into more depth of how it works. If you like non fictional books and fact book you would like this one. This one is one of my favourites and would recommend!