• March 28, 2024

Farting is Good For Your Health…Who Knew

I’m so very disappointed in myself.  For years I’ve been telling liberals to blow it out their asses and now I find out it was a good thing for them to do that.  I never intended to improve their health, but hey, who knew?  RemedyDaily, a website that promotes good health and gives it’s readers warning signs for bad diseases has published the 8 reasons why farting is good for your health.  If that is true, I know a couple of guys who must be immortal.  People always deny being the one who cut the cheese but if 2 men are on an elevator and one of them farts, everyone knows who did it.

 On average, we fart about 5-10 times a day, according to Medical Daily. Certain foods make us fart more – especially complex carbohydrates such as beans, sweet potatoes, oats and wheat – and foods that are packed full of nutritional value can often lead to a stronger odor. Whether you fart five or fifty times a day, here are 8 reasons why you should let it out and pay attention.

1) It reduces bloating. Many people suffer from bloating, and while it’s usually not a serious health issue, it can be very uncomfortable. According to Little Things, the most common cause of bloating is a build-up of gas in your gut. That’s right – the full, tight discomfort that makes your pants a little tighter might just be because you need to fart. So don’t hold it in.

2) It’ll help you balance your diet. Everyone has a unique gut and we all handle foods differently. If you are experimenting with nutrition and diet, farts are a good indicator of balance or imbalance, according to Huffington Post. Too much red meat, for example, usually results in a strong, unpleasant odor, while complex carbohydrates tend to cause larger amounts of gas with a more neutral odor.

3) It can relieve abdominal pain. It might not be appropriate to fart in every situation, but holding it in – especially if you have a lot of gas in your gut – can cause intestinal distension which hurts, according to Berkeley Wellness. If you feel that you need to fart but you can’t, try gently massaging your stomach to promote the movement of gas through your system.

4) Holding it in can be bad for your colon. There is a common saying that holding in your farts is bad for you, and while this isn’t true for most healthy people, there are certain contexts in which it is. Withholding gas can exacerbate hemorrhoids, for example, as can trying to manipulate the way gas comes out. The best policy is to let it come out naturally. People whose colons have been compromised by illness are also best not to hold in flatulence.

5) Inhaling farts is good for you. This sounds silly, but a study from the University of Exeter has found that exposure to small amounts of hydrogen sulfide gas (which our guts produce during digestion) may prevent mitochondrial damage to our cells. This could prevent strokes, heart disease, and arthritis, among other things.

(Is strokes, heart disease, and arthritis really that bad? Heart attack or fart attack…Which is worse?)

6) Farts tell us about our health. Pay attention to the gas you are passing every day. Is it frequent? Does it have a strong odor? Is there any pain? According to Little Things, flatulence can be an early warning sign for a range of health issues. If you have any pain or pronounced changes in your flatulence that you don’t think are related to diet, it might be worth seeing your doctor.

7) Diagnose food allergies. Some food allergies cause us to have severe flatulence, and this is certainly the case for lactose intolerance, according to Medical News Today, as with Coeliac Disease. If you have a notable increase in farting after consuming certain foods or food groups, consult your doctor – there are very simple tests which can tell you whether you should be avoiding those foods.

8) It feels good. We should all admit it – it feels good to let out gas that has been sitting in our abdomens and bothering us. Holding in gas can make us irritable and snappy, and according to Women’s Health Mag the best thing we can do is excuse ourselves to the bathroom and let it out quietly. There’s no relief quite like it.

Pffftttttt….Would someone get the damn phone?  Some asshole keeps calling.

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