Have you ever lost control and farted amongst friends, family or in public? Well next time you do it, don’t stick your tongue out or look smile a sheepish grin, just let everyone know you’re being healthy. Yes, farting or passing wind is healthy. It may not be an aesthetic way of displaying your health but it certainly has its benefits and is an indication that you have a healthy digestive system and stabilized gut bacteria.
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People usually flatulate or fart while sleeping. There are several high carb foods that cause flatulence such as beans, artichokes, oats, nuts, Soy, sweet potatoes and wheat. If you don’t want to fart, you would have to eat just refined sugar and that’s unhealthy for anyone.
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Only they do it quietly and are more prone to exercising discretion. Women’s farts are concentrated and smell more as per a study which observed how men and women who ate the same type of food farted. Now if you must know, there are many benefits to farting.
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Farting reduces bloating by releasing all the pent up gases in your abdomen. If you fele your pants are getting tighter by the minute, try farting.
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Passing wind can be an indicator of a balanced diet. Eating red meat means your farts may stink eating too many carbs may make you fart more but with no odor.
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Gas can also cause abdominal pain called intestinal distension. Passing wind or gas relieves the pain. Massage your belly to help the gas flow through your digestive system making it easier to fart. Here is a good way to massage your stomach to get rid of bloating.
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Holding up your farts and manipulating its release is bad for the colon and can lead to hemorrhoid inflammation. When you need to fart, just fart.
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This sounds gross but c’mon, many people love smelling their own farts yet they would freak out smelling someone else’s. Perhaps it’s evolutionary physiological instinct that makes us realize smelling our fears is healthy, Hydrogen Sulfide produced in the intestines during digestions can even help by prevention of mitochondrial damage to our cells. This also prevents heart disease, arthritis, and stroke. Can you beat that, your fart actually fights off disease too. Perhaps it’s time doctors started smelling farts to make a correct diagnosis.
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Flatulence is an indicator of food allergies like lactose intolerance and celiac disease. After consumption of such items you may tend to fart even more.
Yes, who doesn’t love farting when at home, the pleasure of allowing the pressure to build up, and then let it rip like a cannon blast or a loud motorbike. Honestly, there’s nothing as nice as that is there? Holding in your fart can even make you cranky, ever thought of that.
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However, if you still dislike farting you can eat slowly, avoid carbonated drinks and artificial sweetner. Be physically active and get some exercise regularly. Or else you could learn to be more comfortable with your own physiology and being a normal human being because a healthy digestive system is the key to overall good health. And of course passing wind is healthy, so happy farting.
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