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... Your average human being experiences flatulence six to seven times per day. ... As a twenty-year-old male living amongst hundreds of other twenty-year-old males, I think I have experienced flatulence enough to talk about it. ... It is common knowledge among accredited professionals, that flatulence is a natural process in which no one person can control. ... Despite this natural process most people view flatulence as lewd and crude. ... Due to these social implications, it is important to better understand flatulence, and to better prevent, if possible. ... Much like the popular saying, “You are what you eat,” flatulence is wholly related to one’s diet and the manner in which that diet is consumed. ... Levitt, a gastroenterologist and associate chief of staff at the Minneapolis Veteran Affairs Medical Center, says that the average person experiences flatulence upwards of 22 times a day, nearly 110 milliliters of gas expelled per instance. ... Most of the flatulence is directly related to how much air we swallow, which happens in a variety of ways.
Approximate Word count = 821 Approximate Pages = 3.3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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