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10 More Fascinating Facts About Flatulence by Giftedgreen: 8:33pm On Dec 12, 2014
No matter how pretty you are or how rich you get, you fart, Genevieve Nnaji farts, Barack Obama farts, Angelina Jolie farts, heck! everybody farts. Trying to convince anybody that you don’t fart is one of the most futile battles you will ever fight

We’ve already given you 10 Fascinating facts about flatulence and as it turns out we have more facts about flatulence to share.

http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/01/15/10-fascinating-facts-about-flatulence/

Now for your reading pleasure we are happy to announce our second list of facts about flatulence.

Enjoy the list and be sure to relate any of your thoughts in the comments.

1. Inhaling The Smell Of Farts Might Be Good For Your Health

No one enjoys the smell of flatulence but science has come to tell us that the smell of flatulence has secret health benefits – and could help stave off cancer, strokes, heart attacks and dementia.

Hydrogen sulfide is one of a number of potent smelly gases produced by bacteria as it breaks down food in the gut.

It is toxic in large doses but in tiny amounts it helps protect cells and fight illness, according to experts at Exeter University.

When cells become stressed by disease they try to draw in enzymes to generate their own minute quantities of hydrogen sulfide.

Hydrogen sulphise is so important that Researchers have come up with a new compound named AP39 to assist the body with just the right amount of Hydrogen sulphide (so, you don’t go about sniffing people’s fart)

They believe it will help prevent or reverse mitochondrial damage, which is a key strategy in treating conditions such as stroke, heart failure, diabetes, arthritis, dementia and ageing.

2. Your Farts Do Not Smell Very Offensive To You

Do you wonder why it is every easy for you to comfortably wallow in the smell of your own fart but can barely tolerate a few seconds of another persons’ fart?

Or why you always insist that the smell of your fart is not as horrible as that of every other person on planet earth?

Well, experiments have confirmed that we find the smell of our own farts less offensive than others’.

The reason is that we become habituated to all smells over time.

That’s why you might notice a scent walking into a stranger’s house, but seldom does for your own.

It’s also why you become habituated to the characteristic mix of odors produced by the bacteria inside your own body, which differs slightly from everyone else’s. As a result, your own farts just don’t have the same impact on you — even though they’re just as pungent for everyone else.

3. You Can’t Hold In Your Fart Until It Disappears

If you are on a date with your ultimate crush and you suddenly feel the urge to fart? The logical option would be to hold it in, right? If you hold it long enough it would disappear.

Scientifically, holding in a fart until it disappears is not possible. It might seem to vanish because you stop being conscious of it, and it leaks out gradually, but the physics of flatulence are pretty straightforward.

A fart is a bubble of gas, and there’s ultimately nowhere for it to go besides out of your anus.

Doctors disagree on whether or not holding in a fart is bad for your health.

Some experts think that farts are a natural part of your digestive system, so holding them in won’t harm you.

Others think that at best, holding them in can cause gas, bloating, and other uncomfortable symptoms, and at worst, repressing gas can cause hemorrhoids or a distended bowel.

Even if you clenched your butt and held them in all day, the gas will escape once you go to sleep.

4. There Is A Drug That Helps You Fart Less

In case you’re wondering, the over-the-counter product Beano — which claims to “prevent gas before it occurs” — actually works as advertised. Two different controlled trials have found that it significantly reduces gas production in the hours following a bean-filled meal.

The way it works is pretty simple: the pills contain an enzyme called alpha-galactosidase that cuts complex carbohydrates into shorter, simpler carbs that are much easier to digest.

As a result, they get broken down in your small intestine, rather than making it all the way to the large intestine, where bacteria would ferment them, producing gas.

However, there’s a drawback to habitually taking Beano to prevent gas.

5. Using The Drug Has Its Own Side Effects

For most people, actively trying to limit your gas production isn’t necessary, except you are the kid that was arrested for farting too much in class(yes it actually happened).

The amount you produce is the result of both your balance of gut bacteria and diet, and unless you’re experiencing other sorts of problems — such as painful bloating — it’s not wise to mess (pun intended) with it.

You might decide to stop eating things that produce gas like beans. But these foods, which have complex carbohydrates, are nutrition for the bacteria in our gut. You don’t want to starve them unless there’s a good reason.

6. Some People Fart As A Form Of Greeting

While most cultures feel that farts should be suppressed in polite company, there are some cultures that not only don’t mind letting them fly in public, but they actually enjoy it.

An Indian tribe in South America called the Yanomami use farting as a greeting. Just to say Hi.

In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!

7. Dead People Can Fart

Here’s proof that you can’t escape passing wind, even after you’re dead!

Up to three hours after the body dies, gasses continue to escape from both ends of the digestive tract, resulting in burping or farting noises. This phenomenon is due to muscles contracting and expanding before rigor mortis sets in.

8. There Is A Drug That Makes Your Fart Smell Like Chocolate

In case you are not a fan of drugs that make you fart less, you could opt for this new wonder drug that makes your fart smell like rosy chocolates.

The inventor says he came up with his range of indigestion tablets after he was “nearly suffocated” by the smell of farts

This drug makes people’s flatulence smell sweeter – of chocolate or of roses.

The pills are sold on the internet, visit pilulepet.com to get your copy, NOW!!!

9. If You Fart In Space It Would Propel You Forward

Yes, a fart should propel you forward, since there is virtually no opposing force in the form of friction or gravity to counteract the force of the fart.

10. An Animal Uses Fart To Communicate

In polite society, flatulence is often a social faux pas—especially when issued deliberately. But in the world of fish, group “messing” sessions appear to perform an important social role.

This intriguing idea comes from scientists who discovered that herring create a mysterious underwater noise by farting.

Researchers suspect herring hear the bubbles as they’re expelled, helping the fish form protective shoals at night. It’s the first ever study to suggest fish communicate by breaking wind.

Have you had any horrible experience with farting that you would love to share? Let us know in the comment section below

http://giftedgreen.com/2014/blog/2014/12/12/10-more-fascinating-facts-about-flatulence/

Re: 10 More Fascinating Facts About Flatulence by IKJ66(m): 8:41pm On Dec 12, 2014
Hehehe...................so fart got its important
Re: 10 More Fascinating Facts About Flatulence by pweshex(m): 8:45pm On Dec 12, 2014
some people greet by farting? greet a Nigerian parent that way and wake up in d hospital
Re: 10 More Fascinating Facts About Flatulence by Ezedon(m): 8:50pm On Dec 12, 2014
E be like he want tell us another story again o
Re: 10 More Fascinating Facts About Flatulence by sparkleboy(m): 1:43pm On Dec 13, 2014
Farters and fartees grin
Re: 10 More Fascinating Facts About Flatulence by nwaobitex: 6:43pm On Dec 13, 2014
funny

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