waitingman: (Happy Droopy)
If you hold in a fart too long “it can be reabsorbed into your blood circulation and breathed out when you exhale”.

Healthline also explained on its site there was limited scientific evidence that holding in farts could cause several health issues. But it stated that in the short-term, holding in a fart can cause immediate pain, discomfort, bloating, indigestion and heartburn

“What’s more, as the pressure builds, so may your stress levels, making it even more uncomfortable and less likely you’ll be able to hold in a fart,” it explained.


Prof Collins explained one study found that the smelliest farts were due to sulphur-containing gases.

“This was confirmed in a study of 16 healthy adults who were fed pinto beans and lactulose, a non-absorbable carbohydrate that gets fermented in the colon. The odour intensity of flatus samples was evaluated by two judges,” she said.

“The good news was that in a follow-up experiment, the researchers identified that a charcoal-lined cushion was able to help quash the smell of the sulphur gases.”


How does one become a judge of fart samples? How much does it pay??!!
waitingman: (Paddington)
Celebrity Chef fined $25,000 for misleading claims about machine that 'cures' Covid19

The culinary mouthpiece in question (I won't call him a chef, as he doesn't seem to do much cooking in high-end restaurants, just sits judging amateur contestants on television, while munching on 'activated' almonds) - has form in this area... he regularly promotes products or produce as having amazing restorative or curative powers, claims to know better than scientists & doctors, or spruiks questionable diets that are the answer to everything from an upset tummy to world peace & global warming... Okay that last bit's an exaggeration, but give him time, I'm sure he'll find something that he will assure us can do it... & give you Marvel superhero-like powers... Probably

Even though it won't stop him mouthing off the next time he finds something with dubious science behind its claims to align the planets & reveal the aliens in our midst, I'm pleased he's been fined by an Authority & that it has been well publicised. If only there were a global organisation which could impose a fine & a muzzle on that other, internationally recognised snake oil salesman...

It's one of the things I wonder & lament about in this modern world... when did we stop listening to scientists, teachers, doctors... & start listening to quacks with fake tans & a media agent?

Certainly, there's an argument to be made about corporate funding to education & science meaning there's no such thing as unquestionable, unbiased research & results, but given that all of the findings must be peer-reviewed before becoming accepted practice, there is a safety net that stops bad science becoming fact. It's (mostly) a free world, so you are welcome to ignore, or reject that science & accept the consequences of doing so... but you shouldn't be free to share your unfounded opinions, beliefs &, above all, products with the rest of the world - preying on the illiterate, the weak, the elderly, the poor... your huddled masses

So, to make the obvious connection to current events - while it may be true that the W.H.O. has been politically compromised, there's no evidence at all that its actual work in this time of plague... or at any other time of crisis, is not to be trusted

Peter Evans, or a Paediatrician... Donald Trump, or a Doctor - the choice is yours... as are the consequences
waitingman: (World Cow)
It's a quiet day at work, so I've been trawling the news sites, as usual. Reading this article reminded me of just how small we are in this universe

Man, that 4th day for God must have taken some overtime!!

Genesis 1:16 The Fourth Day
… 15 And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. 17 God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth...


Billions of galaxies, containing stars, planets, pulsars, neutron stars, black holes, dark matter, the entire elemental table (& probably a bunch more we haven't discovered yet), light, gravity...

If a divine being did all that in a day, surely he could spare a microsecond to take care of some business on the planet he filled with creatures made in his own image? Or did he just abandon this one as a faulty experiment & started again somewhere else...?

If you believe in that sort of thing, of course... not sure I do. I wish science could be a bit more definitive about the universe, but I suppose we've only been studying it scientifically for the last few hundred years, once the Church stopped persecuting astronomers, so I should learn to be patient - these things take time. Trouble is, time on a galactic, or universal, scale, is not something I have...

Sometimes I wish I didn't have the time, or inclination, to think about these things...
waitingman: (Default)
Are you constantly mugged on Memory Lane? Does your train of thought frequently stop at unpleasant places you wish it would either bypass, or at least chug straight past?

Mine certainly does - usually prompting a Janov-ian vocalised response of varying volume & intensity, depending on the unwanted memory that's forced its way to the front of my mind

Enter Modern Science...

Please let me know when GABA is available in tablet form... I want a lifetime prescription
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