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Smelling farts could be the best thing you do today [bizarre "health discovery"]
CNET.com ^ | July 11, 2014 | Anthony Domanico

Posted on 07/12/2014 12:08:16 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

It's Friday, and what better way to spend the day that starts with F than talking about Flatulence?

Anyone who has accidentally let one rip in a social situation understands the immediate horror associated with getting caught passing gas. But instead of being ashamed when you fart in public, you should embrace your dirty deed with pride, as you may have just helped saved someone's life. Well, that's what a study currently getting some attention might suggest, but it's more complicated than that.

The study out of the University of Exeter in the UK found that the hydrogen sulfide gas found in rotten eggs and flatulence could reduce the risk of cancer, heart attack, strokes, arthritis, and dementia.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: 201407; cabbage; cancer; farts; flatulence; gas; health; hydrogensulfide; napl; podesta
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To: Slings and Arrows
Fart Proudly by Benjamin Franklin.

http://humorinamerica.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/fart-proudly/

61 posted on 07/12/2014 7:32:32 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I should invite people to stay at our “health spa” after a nice Italian dinner at our house.


62 posted on 07/12/2014 8:29:23 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Nervous Tick

Take two beans and call me in the morning.


63 posted on 07/12/2014 10:18:37 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows; martin_fierro; #1CTYankee; .cnI redruM; -=SoylentSquirrel=-; 007girl; ...
Smug Alert!
64 posted on 07/12/2014 10:46:26 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
if that's the best, i can't imagine the worst...
65 posted on 07/12/2014 10:50:30 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Slings and Arrows

But they said small doses. There’s always a catch.


66 posted on 07/12/2014 10:54:51 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I always let my benefactors know that a beer-laden Monday Morning Burst is good for them. They disagree.


67 posted on 07/12/2014 10:57:05 AM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

Always.


68 posted on 07/12/2014 11:18:24 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

If I fart in public I just pick up my iPhone and say hello. People just think I have some curious ring tones.


69 posted on 07/12/2014 11:18:25 AM PDT by Walmartian (I'm their leader. Which way did they go?)
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