The Scoop on Poop! Flush with Knowledge is a uniquely informative, tastefully entertaining, and well-illustrated volume that is a comprehensive and knowledgeable overview of all topics related to the remains of the digestive process. Whether you call it poop, feces, excrement, manure, dung, or by one of the more than one hundred euphemisms, the proper Old English term is ‘shyte’ or ‘shite’. Now using proper Modern English, shit happens, and it happens a lot! Tens of billions of pounds and kilograms are deposited every day by a wild diversity of animal and microbial life. Humans alone contribute over three billion pounds a day, and only a small percent of that is treated by a sewage system. Whether you disdain or appreciate it, it is part of the human (and animal) experience. The purpose of this volume is to share rarely discussed, yet important, knowledge about poop. The information ranges from the potentially life-saving to the sidesplitting eccentricities and peculiarities of human behavior. The wealth of information and trivia in this volume can sustain a long social conversation, or cut it short abruptly!
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Introduction Digestion Anal Canal Anal Columns Anal Expulsiveness Anal Glands Anal Glands, Musk Anal Glands, Skunk Anal Hygiene Anal Hygiene, Toilet Contamination Analingus Anal Reflex Anal Retentive Anal Sex Anal Sphincter, External Anal Sphincter, Internal Anal Stimulation Anal Valves Anal Wink Anoscopy Aroma, Feces Assume Autointoxication Ayurveda Barium Enema Bashful Bowel Bidet Bismuth Blue Ice Fall Bowel Bowel Management Bowel Movement Bowel Sounds Bristol Stool Scale Bullshit Cathartic Chamber Pot Chickenshit Close (Night) Stool Coffee, Kopi Luwak Clyster Colon Colonic Hydrotherapy, Proctoclysis Colonography Colonoscopy Composting Toilet Constipation Constitutional Continence, Fecal Coprolith Coprographia Coprolalia Coprology Coprophagia Coprophilia Copropraxia Defecation Defecography Dentate Line Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Diarrhea Dietary Fiber Digestion Dung Dung Beetle Dung Fuel Dysbiosis Encopresis Enema Enema, Coffee Enteric Nervous System Epigenetics Eproctophilia Evacuative Dysfunction Excrement Exercise Fart Fecal Continence Fecal Impaction Fecal Incontinence Fecalith Fecal Occult Blood Fecaloma Fecal Oral Contamination Route Fecal (Microbiota) Transplant Feces Feces, Aroma Feces, Density Feces Waste Management Fiber Flora, Gastrointestinal Gastrocolic Reflex Gastroenteritis Gastroenterology Gastrointestinal Motility Gastrointestinal Nervous System Genetics Genome Gong Farmer Groom of the Stool Guano Gut-Brain-Microbiome-Food Axis Gut Feeling Gut Flora Hemorrhoid Honey Bucket & Honey Wagon Horseshit Hydrogen Hydrogen Sulfide Ileum Incontinence, Fecal Indole Insoluble Fiber Intestinal Fortitude Irritable Bowel Syndrome Jejunum Keriorrhea Klismaphilia Kopi Luwak Coffee Lactose Intolerance Large Bowel (Large Intestine) Laxative Laxative Abuse & Dependence Levator Ani Malabsorption & Maldigestion Manure Mass Movements Meconium Melena Methane Microbiome, Gut Mucoid Plaque Mucus Night Soil Night Stool Olestra Orlistat Outhouse Panchagavya Perineal Body Peristalsis Pit Toilet Prebiotic Probiotics Proctology Proctoscopy Pruritis Ani Pubococcygeus Muscle Puborectalis Muscle Rectal Bleeding Rectal Examination Rectum Runner’s Trots Scatology Scybalum Septage (Septic Field & Tank) Sewer Shart Shit Shrimp Coprophagia Shyster Sigmoidoscopy Skatole Small Intestine Steatorrhea Stinkbug Suppository Toilet Toilet Gods Toilet (Potty) Training Transverse Folds of Houston Traveler’s Diarrhea Valsalva Maneuver Villi Afterword Appendix A (Foreign Languages – Feces/Shit) Appendix B (Euphemisms – Feces/ Shit) Index
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Joseph B. Weiss, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, at the University of California, San Diego. An autodidact and polymath, he was accepted to university at age fifteen and attended the University of Michigan, University of Detroit, and Wayne State University. Reflecting his broad interests, he had three separate majors in Medieval English Literature, Astrophysics, and Invertebrate Zoology. Following his graduation from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, he completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center in Orange, California. Under the auspices of the World Health Organization and others he has pursued interests in Tropical Medicine and International Medicine with extended stays in Africa, The Middle East, and Latin America. Subsequently completing a clinical and research fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of California, San Diego, he has been active on the clinical faculty for over thirty years.Dr. Weiss is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association, and a Senior Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology. Double board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Dr. Weiss has over thirty years of clinical, administrative, and research experience. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Scripps Clinic Medical Group, Clinical Board of Governors of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, and Chancellor’s Associates of the University of California, San Diego
He is the author of more than ten books on health (www.smartaskbooks.com), and has had numerous papers published in prestigious national and international medical journals, as well as in the lay press. Dr. Weiss is also an accomplished humorist and professional speaker member of the National Speakers Association, having given over two thousand presentations nationally and internationally. He has presented at universities, medical schools, hospitals and medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, YPO/WPO, Aspen Institute, Bohemian Grove, Esalen Institute, Renaissance Weekend, International Destination Spas & Resorts (Golden Door, Canyon Ranch, Rancho La Puerta), corporate events, etc. Co-hosting a popular health care radio program on a major network affiliate in Southern California showcased his skills as a communicator.
Combining a razor sharp intellect within a compassionate humanist, he is as comfortable with heads of state, celebrities, Nobel laureates, and CEO’s as he is with the most menial of laborers and the unemployed. With a winsome and personable disposition, he can easily assume a contrarian viewpoint in order to engage and encourage discussion and exploration. Having experienced more than his fair share of both tragedy and the heights of success, his life view philosophy is well earned, knowledgeable, and insightful. A naturally gifted communicator, teacher, and student, sharing and expanding knowledge are an overarching passion. With a great sense of humor, he shares the deprecating story that he used to consider himself conceited, but with the development of an extraordinary degree of modesty, he is now absolutely perfect. Continuing as an inquisitive life-long student of everything, volunteer philanthropic and community activities, and world travel are just a few of the avocations he enjoyably pursues.
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