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Article: BODY'S GOT TO LET GO OF GAS SOMEHOW
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- October 30, 1988
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It's amazing that we all don't just float away on the gassy results of our bad eating habits.
Did you know that, even as you read this, there's about two-thirds of a cup of gas in your body and you'll expel about 10 times that much from various sources today? That's normal. Some of the gas gets out as belches, some of it as flatus (expelled rectally), some of it passes from your intestines into your bloodstream to exit via your lungs and mouth - one reason for bad breath if your digestion is upset.
How well your body handles gas depends upon what and how you eat and the kind of a day you're having:
Perhaps you skipped ...