LIVER AND OPINIONS
     As shown in this chapter, changing eating habits is not an easy task. During WW2, due to U.S. rationing, while there was little muscle meat (everyday american meat) to go around, organ meats were in abundance. Organ meats were also very healthy for you with plenty of vitamins. The only problem?-getting people to eat them. Americans were not accustomed to much organ meat and didn't embrace it freely leaving the american government struggling to find ways to get it accepted. One reason we eat one thing and not another is simply culture. By the age of ten we are accustomed to eating the things that others eat around us.

THE LONGEST MEAL
     Chew more- that was Horace Fletcher's message. Claiming that it could cut the amount of nutrients needed by one-half and in turn the national spending on food. But, besides the fact that chewing until liquidation is not exactly enjoyable, Martin Stocks (developer of the modern gut model) states that it makes little overall difference in the body. This may be due to the fact that the human digestive tract is designed to extract the maximum amount of nutrition from the food it's given naturally and doesn't need extensive help from the teeth or jaw mussels. One thing that is helpful about through (but not to the Fletcher extent) chewing is that is slows the consumer down, which is helpful when trying to lose weight.

HARD TO STOMACH
     This chapter tells the story of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin. The relationship of the two men was simple: scientist and test subject. Beaumont would observe the inner workings of St. Martin's stomach through a sizable hole. St. Martin had sustained this hole through a duck hunting indecent and was operated on by Beaumont. Beaumont realized the potential in St. Martin's situation and later proposed to him the ideas he had in mind for St. Martin. Many experiments ensued most of them unpleasant for St. Martin, and occasionally for Beaumont (I would imagine that tasting predigested chicken would be anything but fun). It is clear that the men had some sort of intimate relationship, but of course how could they not after living together for a decade. Then again, it was also clear that Beaumont also looked down upon St. Martin partly due to the differences in class, and partly because Beaumont saw St. Martin as more of a body than a man. Overall, not all that much new information was taken from all those years of work.

Citation:
 Bettmann, Otto, Dr. :Illustration depicting Dr. William Beaumont (1785-1853) experimenting with digestive juice by tapping a fistule into the stomach of Alexis St. Martin. Undated colored drawing. Digital image. Http://www.corbisimages.com. Corbis Corporation, n.d. Web. 13 Aug. 2013.

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