Health and
Fitness
"Never
fart and then embrace your lover whilst wearing an overcoat
on a cold day" -
The Little
Book of Farting
A Load of
old
Beans
The conventional association
is with breaking wind.
It is
unlikely that anyone having
seen the movie Blazing
Saddles will remember any
scene as well as that of the
cowhands seated around the
campfire eating beans.
But there
is a lot more to beans, or
more precisely the type of
beans that are more
accurately designated pulses,
than the gaseous aftermath.
There is, in fact, a whole
body of medical knowledge,
both orthodox and
alternative, devoted to
extolling the benefits of
these crops.
There is
however, and less widely
advertised, some evidence
that some of the legumes at
least, or an over-indulgence
in them, may produce medical
problems somewhat more
serious than the common
fart.
Read on
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