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AspergianMutantt
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11 Jul 2014, 10:51 pm

Study: Smelling farts is good for your health

http://theweek.com/article/index/264585 ... our-health


Well, in that case I wont be so bashful anymore and just letter rip, then tell others its for their own benefit! Gotta love those chilly beans with onions and garlic and other spicy anti-oxidant foods! :lol: :drunken: :mrgreen:


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11 Jul 2014, 11:57 pm

they may be good for you (in moderation) but that doesn't make them any more pleasant.
like being a child and having to eat steamed vegetables.


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12 Jul 2014, 4:50 am

But doesn't farting expel fecal matter? I'd think you wouldn't want to snort any of that into your lungs! 8O


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12 Jul 2014, 5:36 am

Kraichgauer wrote:
But doesn't farting expel fecal matter? I'd think you wouldn't want to snort any of that into your lungs! 8O


Hey man, that's good sh*t. :P


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12 Jul 2014, 5:37 am

TallyMan wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
But doesn't farting expel fecal matter? I'd think you wouldn't want to snort any of that into your lungs! 8O


Hey man, that's good sh*t. :P


Well, you know what they say - only you like your own farts. :lol:


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12 Jul 2014, 7:00 am

Kiprobalhato wrote:
they may be good for you (in moderation) but that doesn't make them any more pleasant.
like being a child and having to eat steamed vegetables.


Even as a child i didnt think that veggies were THAT bad!



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12 Jul 2014, 9:38 am

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12 Jul 2014, 12:17 pm

What gets me is how did they test this? someone fart in bottles for others to huff or sniff? come right up pull down their pants and fart in others faces? or just walk into a room and fart then walk out? who would volunteer for such testing? Hmm I rate this fart a 6.1 on the farto meter. and that one smells like beans with bacon!. Perhaps they tested it with sniffing their own farts.

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12 Jul 2014, 12:29 pm

AspergianMutantt wrote:
What gets me is how did they test this? someone fart in bottles for others to huff or sniff? come right up pull down their pants and fart in others faces? or just walk into a room and fart then walk out? who would volunteer for such testing? Hmm I rate this fart a 6.1 on the farto meter. and that one smells like beans with bacon!. Perhaps they tested it with sniffing their own farts.


If you want to peg a fartometer, hard boiled eggs and cheap beer is the most pungent way of doing so....

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12 Jul 2014, 1:05 pm

For me it's chilli or pizza with beer.


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12 Jul 2014, 1:07 pm

Sugarless chocolate covered almonds leaves me gassy and able to share.
Straight sugarless chocolate in large amounts sends me to the bathroom several times.


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12 Jul 2014, 1:37 pm

i can't even tell what makes me gassy.
AFAIK, it just comes and goes.


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13 Jul 2014, 5:25 pm

I dunno...some might consider it smuggy :)

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14 Jul 2014, 1:26 am

I think this study is a load of hot air...



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14 Jul 2014, 7:24 am

The article says that smelling farts is good for your health but the study does not say that at all. What the study actually says is that hydrogen sulfide (which gives farts their distinctive smell) can help with some conditions with targeted delivery to key places inside cells.

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It may smell of flatulence and have a reputation for being highly toxic, but when used in the right tiny dosage, hydrogen sulfide is now being being found to offer potential health benefits in a range of issues, from diabetes to stroke, heart attacks and dementia.
A new compound (AP39), designed and made at the University of Exeter, could hold the key to future therapies, by targeting delivery of very small amounts of the substance to the right (or key) places inside cells.


Saying that "smelling farts is good for health" makes a fun headline for article writers but isn't even remotely what the research shows.



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14 Jul 2014, 2:34 pm

well, it definitely got people to click on it.
i'm guessing that was the whole point.


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