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The notorious ‘Silent But Deadly’ fart – fact or fiction?
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Police Called To Domestic Dispute Over Boyfriend Passing Gas
CLAWSON (WWJ) – Police are shaking their heads after a suspected domestic violence call turned out to be something else entirely.
Clawson Police Chief Harry Anderson says a woman dialed 911 when she heard what sounded like a violent altercation between her neighbors at a Maple Road apartment complex.
“One of the neighbors had heard somebody yelling — a female yelling … she was possibly being hit — yelling, ‘Stop! No!’” Anderson told WWJ Newsradio 950′s Marie Osborne.
The concerned party also said that, in between shouts, she heard a repeated loud noise.
Police arrived within minutes. When they knocked on the door to the unit, Anderson said, a woman told officers she was indeed shouting, ‘Stop!’ — but that her boyfriend was not beating her.
So, what was the stink all about?
“The female that was inside stated that her boyfriend had continued to pass gas, and she was yelling at him to stop,” Anderson said.
In a show of a little police humor, the officers’ report states that police then, “Cleared the scene expeditiously.”
“It’s quite often that we respond to things that have a funny twist to them — and this was definitely one for the books,” Anderson said.
What Makes Us Fart?
More useful knowledge from Life’s Little Mysteries.
The answer may stink, but eating or drinking anything gives us gas. In fact, it’s normal to fart up to half of a gallon (1.9 liters), or about 15 to 20 toots worth of gas, each day.
When we gulp down food, air comes with it. So if a belch seems rude, remember that the air has to leave our bodies one way or another.
Fragrant flatulence, however, comes from colonies of bacteria shacked up inside our lower intestinal tract (which is why it can take hours for gas to kick in after a meal). In the process of converting our meals into useful nutrients, these food-munching microbes produce a smelly by-product of hydrogen sulfide gas — the same stench that emanates from rotten eggs.
Although the gaseous response of bacteria to food differs from person to person (as every one has a unique collection of their own), the biggest gas-generating ingredients are sugars, especially the following four:
- Fructose — A natural ingredient in plants like onions, corn, wheat and even pears. It’s often concentrated into a sugary syrup for soft drinks and fruit drinks.
- Lactose — Milk’s sweet natural ingredient, also added to foods like bread and cereal. Some people are born with low levels of lactase, the enzyme that breaks down lactose, a fact that inflates their gassy susceptibility.
- Raffinose — The secret gassy ingredient in beans, which is also found in broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, asparagus and other vegetables. Products like Beano, designed to reduce gas production, break down the sugar before it can reach eager intestinal bacteria.
- Sorbitol — Found in almost all fruits, this indigestible sugar is also used as an artificial sweetener in “diet” and sugar-free foods. Yes, sugar-free gum, candy, soda and anything else deceptively sweet can cause gas.
Other fart-forming ingredients include fiber and starches found in foods like corn, potatoes and wheat. While fats and protein don’t cause gas, they can make a meal take longer to digest — and give bacteria more time to generate gas from other ingredients.
Just about the only food that doesn’t give us gas? Rice.
Fighting flatulence takes trial and error to figure out which foods excite your intestinal friends and cutting back on them. As a general rule, taking anti-gas products like alpha-galactosidase (Beano) or lactase enzyme (Lactaid) with problematic foods can curb some flatulence — simethicone (Gas-X) only helps relieve bloating by passing gas faster.
Chronic irritating or painful gas may signal something serious, however, so seeing a gastrointestinal specialist is a good idea if this is the case.
Joke Of The Day: Hardware Store
A lady was in a hardware store looking at a fishing poles.
She asked the store manager how much it was.
He said ‘I am blind drop it on the ground and i’ll tell ya.’
She dropped it on the ground.’Aahh that’s $10.00.’
She bent down and let a big fart that everyone heard. But, she really wanted the pole so she picked it up. And went to pay for it.
‘That will be $20.00’
‘But you said $10.00’
‘$10.00 extra for the stink bait and duck call.
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