Introduction Warning: This Book Is Downright Disgusting | p. viii |
Acne: Look Out Below, Your Zit's About to Blow! | p. 1 |
Ants: Some of These Creepy Crawlies Are No Picnic | p. 3 |
Bacteria: The Good, the Bad, and the Stinky | p. 6 |
Bats: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a Fuzzy Mammal? | p. 11 |
Beetles: The Things That Go Crunch in the Night | p. 14 |
Blood: How Something so Gross Can Be so Good | p. 18 |
Body Lint: Would You Like Toe Jam with Your Toast? | p. 20 |
Body Odor: I Sweat Therefore I Stink | p. 21 |
Burping: A Belch Is Born | p. 24 |
Cannibals: Let Them Eat...Fred? | p. 26 |
Cockroaches: Or, How to Live for 135 Million Years on a Diet of Pure Garbage | p. 29 |
Crocodilians: From King of the World to Swamp Thing | p. 33 |
Dandruff: Snow for All Seasons | p. 35 |
Earwax: Great Big Gobs of Brownish Gunk | p. 38 |
Edible Bugs: Waiter, There's Some Soup in My Bug! | p. 42 |
Eels: Slithery, Slimy Swarms of Fish | p. 46 |
Eye Gunk: Mr. Sandman, Meet Mr. Mucus | p. 49 |
Farts: A Burp from Below | p. 54 |
Fleas: This Joint Is Jumping! | p. 57 |
Flies Puking and Peeing: A Day in the Life of a Fly | p. 60 |
Foul Feet: A Step in the Wrong Direction | p. 63 |
Freaky Fish: Swim or Be Swallowed | p. 64 |
Frightening Fashions: Outfits Wackier than Your Great-Aunt Ida's | p. 68 |
Fungi: There's a Fungus Among Us! | p. 71 |
Gross Grub: If You Think Broccoli Is Bad | p. 74 |
Halitosis: Wake Up and Smell the Stench | p. 78 |
Icky Insects: To Buzz or Not to Buzz | p. 82 |
Jellyfish: Put on Your Pantyhose and Dive In! | p. 85 |
Leeches: A Blood Buffet | p. 88 |
Lice: Too Much Attention Can Go to Your Head | p. 91 |
Lizards: Relax, Take Your Tail Off | p. 93 |
Maggots: Decaying Dead Deer? Dinnertime!! | p. 96 |
Miserable Meats: A Soda, Some Fries, and a Double Eyeball Burger with Cheese | p. 99 |
Mites: Mighty Microscopic Munchers | p. 102 |
Mosquitoes: A Midsummer Night's Scream | p. 103 |
Mucky Medicine: This Will Only Hurt for a Second | p. 106 |
Mummies: Are You My Mummy? | p. 110 |
Naked Mole-Rats: Rough, Tough, and in the Buff | p. 113 |
Parasites: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner | p. 115 |
Pee: They Call Me Mellow Yellow | p. 117 |
Poop: A Bum Deal | p. 121 |
Pus: Green, Goopy, and Good for You Too! | p. 124 |
Quicksand: I'm Sinking and I Can't Get Up! | p. 126 |
Rats: Long-tailed, Sharp Toothed Disease Buses | p. 128 |
Raunchy Recipes: Today's Specials: Totally Nasty | p. 131 |
Scabs: A Crusty Coat of Armor | p. 134 |
Scorpions: Mini-Monsters of the Night | p. 136 |
Shrunken Heads: A Nightmare for Your Noggin | p. 139 |
Sickening Seafood: This Chapter Is Not for the Faint of Tummy | p. 140 |
Skin Eruptions: Rashes, Blisters, and Warts. Oh My! | p. 144 |
Skunks: A Putrescent Perfume | p. 149 |
Slugs: Confessions of a Naked Snail | p. 152 |
Snakes: Do the Fang Tango | p. 155 |
Snot: You May Think It's Candy, but It's Snot | p. 160 |
Spiders: They're Not All Itsy-Bitsy! | p. 163 |
Spitting: Welcome to Loogie Land | p. 167 |
Tar Pits: Stuck in a Rut | p. 171 |
Ticks: A Bunch of Suckers | p. 173 |
Toilets: A Royal Flush | p. 175 |
Vile Vegetation: Fearsome Flowers and Vindictive Vines | p. 180 |
Viruses: Invasion of the Body Snatchers | p. 184 |
Vomit: Bring Along a Barf Bag--This Is Gross! | p. 187 |
Vultures: Chow Time at the Roadkill Cafe | p. 192 |
Worms: Spaghetti That Squirms | p. 196 |
X-Periments: Making Muck of Your Very Own | p. 198 |
Bibliography | p. 203 |
Photo Credits | p. 205 |
Index | p. 207 |
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