Apparently holding in your farts may be bad for your health.
You may instead breathe out the fart in your breath
What foods make you fart?
And do you hold in your farts in a public place?
Green vegetables tend to make me have a bit of flatulence..
https://www.medicaldaily.com/holding...tulence-427538
https://www.news.com.au/technology/s...3e59724711f9a0
Holding a fart in won’t just leave you feeling uncomfortable — it could end up in you breathing the fart out your mouth instead.
That’s according to Professor Clare Collins, a nutrition and dietetics expert at the University of Newcastle.
Writing for The Conversation, she said holding in trapped wind could cause abdominal distension, “with some gas reabsorbed into the circulation and exhaled in your breath”.
“Holding on too long means the build-up of intestinal gas will eventually escape via an uncontrollable fart,” Prof Collins added.
Meanwhile, she warned it could also lead to a condition called diverticulitis but pointed out the evidence wasn’t clear.
That’s where small pouches develop in the gut lining and become inflamed.
The research found people farted more after a big meal and less so at night.
Prof Collins said the gases produced in the intestines come from different sources.
“It can be from swallowing air,” she said. “Or from carbon dioxide produced when stomach acid mixes with bicarbonate in the small intestine.
“Or gases can be produced by bacteria that are located in the large intestine.”
The smelliest farts were due to sulphur-containing gases, one study found.
Sixteen healthy adults were fed pinto beans and lactulose, and the smell was evaluated by two judges — yes really, poor things!
The good news was in a follow-up experiment the researchers found a charcoal-lined cushion “helped quash the smell of the sulphur gases”.
And last but not least in the fart news stakes, Prof Collins said jet setters were very much in the firing line.
“Pressurised cabins on aeroplanes mean you’re more likely to pass flatus due to the gas volume expanding at the lower cabin pressure compared to being on the ground,” she said.
Breaking wind is an entirely natural response to the body’s digestion of food.