The Whiff of Success - No More Gas
It is an age old social problem, one that taxed even the minds
of great men such as Benjamin Franklin and Hippocrates. Ancient
physicians who specialized in flatulence and it's avoidance,
became known as "pneumatists" - their quest was to find a cure
for "escaped wind". Excess gas is rarely a sign of a serious
disease, and if gas is worrisome to you, the best way to control
it is by diet. Most gas is odorless, but some is so smelly, it
can be detected by the human nose in a mere one hundred parts to
a million of air. Most people pass gas up to fourteen times a
days.
The primary source of flatulence is the intestines inability to
absorb certain type of carbohydrate. When carbohydrates are
insufficiently digested, the residue passes to the large
intestine, the home of hordes of hungry, harmless colonies of
bacteria which feast on the leftovers. This process spews off
mixed gasses. How much gas is produced varies from person to
person.
There are many health
secrets which help one avoid blaming the dog, or the next
guy in line. Avoiding dairy produce containing lactose could
help hugely. Lactose intolerant people have a low level of the
intestinal enzyme lactase, which is essential to digest lactose,
the type of sugar found is many dairy products. But you don't
have to be lactose intolerant to have unwanted side effects,
some people can only handle certain amounts of lactose with
comfort. The only exempt dairy produce is yogurt.
Whilst almost everyone knows that beans are a surefire producer,
did you realize that cabbage, broccoli, onions, cauliflower,
bananas, radishes and pretzels can also be highly flatugenic.
Watch out for the low-calorie sweetener, Sorbitol, which is a
ferocious producer of gas.
If you love beans, but hate living with the consequences, there
is a solution. Firstly, the better beans are cooked, the less
the problem. Some studies have shown that soaking beans for
twelve hours before cooking, makes the beans lose much of their
gas producing properties.
Another health secret is that fiber in certain fruits and
vegetables can increase gas. If you are adding fiber to your
diet for health reasons, do it gradually, to allow the bowel
time to get used to it. This lessens the increase of flatus.
Most peoples production of gas returns to normal within a few
weeks of adding fiber.
A well known health secret of the older generations, is that
activated charcoal tablets are highly effective in eliminating
excessive gas. This method of eliminating excess gas is
considered the best treatment available by many pharmacists.
A lesser known health secret, is to block gas by the addition of
ginger or garlic to vegetables as they are cooking. In a test
with green peas, a minimum of garlic was added to the peas at
the start of the cooking process. The result was that the peas
produced a minimum of noxious gas.
So you see, one need not be Benjamin Franklin or Hippocrates to
avoid the often embarrassing situation of excessive gas. There
are many health secrets which will allow you to minimize your
production of excess gas, and to enjoy a breath of fresh air.
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