Stinky Farts, Shrinking Breasts, and Cancer Fighting Beer.
Medical research boring? Not with headlines like these…
MSNBC led with a new study reporting how Stinky farts may help regulate blood pressure. Seems that a smelly rotten-egg gas (scientific name – hydrogen sulfide) in farts controls blood pressure, at least in mice. This gas, made natural in cells lining the mice’s blood vessels, apparently relaxes the blood vessels which, in turn, helps prevent hypertension (high blood pressure). Wow, wonder if this will open up a whole new avenue of treatments for hypertension based on ’stinky farts”?
Meanwhile, the Telegraph wrote about how Drinking too much coffee ‘could shrink women’s breasts’, based on …read more
Fun With Farts: All the Facts You Never Needed to Know
March 20, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Animals, Blogosphere, Exposed!, Misc., Oddities, Your Body
The way I chastise my husband and kids for erroneously “letting one rip”, I’m actually quite amazed that I’m writing this post. But when I read what one of my favorite health blogs, The Body Odd at msnbc.com had to say about breaking wind, even a prude like me began to appreciate the finer points of flatulence.
So, in the spirit of noisy bum-rumblings, I present to you some Fart Fun Facts. Enjoy!
From The Body Odd:
• On average, a fart is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane and 4 percent oxygen. …read more
