Chapter 1 You Are What You Eat -- Does it really take seven years to digest chewing gum? 35 -- Why does your pee smell when you eat asparagus? 35 -- Does sugar really make kids hyperactive? 38 -- What causes an ice cream headache? 38 -- Does eating chocolate cause acne? 39 -- Why do you cry when you cut onions? 40 -- Do cucumbers relieve puffy eyes? 41 -- Why are you served juice and cookies after you donate blood? 41 -- Why do women crave chocolate during their periods? 42 -- Why do you get bloated when you eat salty food? 43 -- What is a food coma? 44 -- Why are you hungry an hour after eating Chinese food? 45 -- What is MSG, and does it cause headaches? 46 -- Can carrots help improve your vision? 47 -- Does coffee stunt your growth? 48 -- Why does skipping your morning coffee cause a headache? 49 -- Why does spicy food make your nose run? 50 -- Does spicy food cause ulcers? 52 -- Does artificial sweetener cause headaches? 52 -- Does licorice cause high blood pressure? 53 -- Chapter 2 Body Oddities -- Is it bad to crack your knuckles? 57 -- Why do some folks have an "outie" belly button and some folks have an "innie"? 57 -- What causes morning breath? 58 -- Why are yawns contagious? 60 -- Why do men have nipples? 61 -- Can you lose a contact lens in the back of your head? 62 -- Can you lose a tampon inside your body if the string comes off? 62 -- Is it true that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body relative to its size? 63 -- Why do your teeth chatter when you are cold? 64 -- Why do you have an appendix if you can live without it? 64 -- Are canker sores contagious? 68 -- What are goose bumps? 68 -- What really is happening when my foot falls asleep? 69 -- Why do you get bags under your eyes when you are tired? 70 -- Why do you laugh when tickled? 70 -- Why does sweat stink and stain? 71 -- What is snot? 76 -- What are eye boogers? 78 -- What are those little half moons in your nails? 80 -- Chapter 3 All You (N)ever Wanted to Know about Sex -- Is sperm nutritious? Or fattening? 82 -- Can you get pregnant while you are having your period? 84 -- Do oysters really make you horny? 84 -- Big hands, big-? 85 -- Why do men wake up in the morning with an erection? 86 -- Can people in wheelchairs still have sex? 88 -- Is it true that you can break your penis? 89 -- Does masturbation cause stuttering, blindness, or hairy palms? 89 -- Does using a tampon for the first time make you lose your virginity? 90 -- Why do nipples become erect? 91 -- What causes shrinkage? 91 -- Does circumcision lessen the fun of sex? 92 -- Does the kind of underpants men wear affect their fertility? 93 -- Is there really a G-spot? 94 -- Do Kegel exercises really work? 95 -- Can hot tubs make you infertile? 96 -- Do men need sex more often than women? 97 -- Can a man ever run out of sperm? 97 -- Are there any specific things that affect the scent of a woman? 98 -- Can a woman ejaculate? 98 -- What is a hickey? 99 -- Chapter 4 Cani treat it myself? -- Can you take the tetracycline meant for fish tanks? 103 -- Does cranberry juice cure urinary tract infections? 103 -- Will yogurt cure a yeast infection if you put it "inside"? 104 -- Does candle flame remove earwax? 104 -- Is it smart to put butter on a burn? 105 -- Does melatonin work for jet lag? 105 -- Should you put a steak on a black eye? 106 -- Will toothpaste get rid of zits? 106 -- Is it dangerous to pop zits? 107 -- If someone is choking at a dinner party, can you do a tracheostomy with an oyster knife? 108 -- Does urinating on a jellyfish sting stop the burn? 109 -- Why is it bad to insert cotton swabs in your ears? 110 -- Is it dangerous to perform colonic irrigation on yourself? 113 -- Does breast milk cure warts? 117 -- If you get bitten by a snake, should you suck out the venom? 117 -- What are hiccups, and how do you get rid of them? 118 -- Does bathing in tomato juice remove the smell of a skunk? 120 -- Does eating fresh parsley cure bad breath? 120 -- Does warm milk really help you sleep? 121 -- Chapter 5 Drugs and Alcohol -- "Beer before liquor, never sicker/Liquor before beer, never fear"? 125 -- Can poppy seeds make you test positive for heroin? 126 -- Why do you get the munchies when you are stoned? 127 -- Can a hair sample be used in a drug test? 128 -- Will a shot of bourbon cure a cold? 129 -- Does putting someone in a shower or giving him or her coffee stop a drug overdose? 129 -- Why do you throw up when you drink too much? 130 -- Does taking Ecstasy cause you to lose your memory? 131 -- Does drinking kill brain cells? 132 -- Why does the bed spin after a long night at the bar? 133 -- Why do you snore so loud when you are drunk? 134 -- Is red wine really good for your health? 134 -- Does marijuana help glaucoma? 135 -- Should you drink brandy when you have frostbite? 135 -- Can you get high from licking a toad? 135 -- Why do people seem more attractive to you when you are drunk? 136 -- Chapter 6 Bathroom Humor -- Can you drink your own urine? 139 -- Why can you ignite a fart? 139 -- Why do you get all "pruney" after a long bath? 141 -- Is it more sanitary to be spit on or peed on? 141 -- Why do beans give you gas? 142 -- Would you die if you ate your own feces? 143 -- Will you get hemorrhoids from sitting on the toilet too long? 148 -- Why does poo stink if the food doesn't? 149 -- Why does poo float? 149 -- Why is poo brown? 150 -- Where does gas go when you can't fart? 151 -- If you are stranded on a desert island, should you drink seawater or your own urine? 152 -- Can you catch diseases from a toilet seat? 152 -- Why do I have to go to the bathroom immediately after a cup of coffee? 153 -- Why do cigarettes have a laxative effect? 154 -- Why do you have to pee when you hear water dripping? 154 -- If you stick a sleeping person's hand in warm water, will he or she wet the bed? 154 -- Is it dangerous to hold it when you have to pee? 155 -- What causes the rumbling in your stomach when you have to go? 156 -- Chapter 7 Medicine from the Movies and TV -- Is the show ER accurate? 165 -- Does the kind of amnesia you see in the movies really exist? 166 -- What would happen if you stuck someone in the heart with a needle as in Pulp Fiction? 168 -- Why does everyone in the movies go into shock? 169 -- Can people really wake up after being in a coma for years? 169 -- Do you really need to remove a bullet right away like they do in old Westerns? 171 -- Is there really a medication that acts like a truth serum? 172 -- What is on the rags that villains use to make their victims pass out? 173 -- Can you die from choking on your own vomit, like the drummer in Spinal Tap? 174 -- Do people really have multiple personalities, like in Sybil? 175 -- Can you get scared to death? 175 -- Can you drink yourself to death like Nicholas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas? 176 -- Does hysterical blindness really exist? 177 -- What would really happen if a Junior Mint fell inside someone during surgery, as in the infamous Seinfeld episode? 179 -- Is it dangerous to eat another human being? 180 -- How many times can you be shot and still survive? 183 -- Is there such a thing as a werewolf? 183 -- Can you really explode from eating too much? 184 -- Do people ever have webbed hands and feet like the Man from Atlantis? 185 -- Why do you see stars when you are hit in the head? 185 -- What was wrong with the boy in The Boy in the Plastic Bubble? 186 -- Chapter 8 Old Wives' Tales -- Is it true that you have to wait a half hour after eating to go swimming? 189 -- Will staring at an eclipse make you go blind? 189 -- Should you starve a fever and feed a cold? 190 -- Does wet or cold weather cause a cold? 191 -- Can you die from chasing Pop Rocks

with Coke? 192 -- Can lip balm be addictive? 193 -- Is it true that left-handed people are smarter than right-handed people? 194 -- Will sleeping in front of a fan or an open window cause a stiff neck? 195 -- Do microwaves cause cancer? 195 -- Will using a cell phone give you a brain tumor? 196 -- Will a plate in your head set off a metal detector in the airport? 196 -- Is it dangerous to hold in a sneeze? 197 -- Can you swallow your tongue? 197 -- Chapter 9 Getting Older -- Is it true that you lose tastebuds as you get older? 203 -- Why does hair turn gray? 203 -- Why do you shrink as you get older? 204 -- Why do old ladies grow beards? 204 -- Do your ears continue to grow after the rest of your body stops growing? 204 -- Why do you need less sleep when you get older? 205 -- What's up with the ear hair? 206 -- Do your nails or hair grow after you die? 206 -- What are age spots? 206 -- Is life span determined strictly by genetics? 207 -- Can taking vitamin C help you live longer? 210 -- Is there such a thing as male menopause? 210 -- Why are older people such bad drivers? 214 -- Is there really a wrinkle cure? 214 -- Can aluminum cause Alzheimer's? 215.