Flatulence

A flatulence is the production of a digestive gas, often expelled out of the digestive tract by the mouth (Rot) or the anus ( fart , vess ).

Flatulence comes from Latin " flatus" who means " souffler".

Flatulences are the result of the Fermentation broken up matters; one finds there in particular gases nonodorous: Methane (flammable gas produced by Bacterium S), Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and gases odorous sulphuretted.

Their intensity depends on many factors: the Constipation, certain intestinal diseases… In fact, one distinguishes several kinds of “farts”. Indeed, there are the long ones, the noisy ones and deaf persons who often produce an effect of dislike.

Resulting from intestinal fermentation, these gases are all the more present as the food breaks up: complex proteins, in particular. The consumers of dry vegetables (flageolets, Cassoulet, Soya, lenses, split peas) and of red meats will be thus better producers. The bad absorption of certain glucids (lactose, fructose…) can also cause flatulences. More rarely, the giardiase, a benign parasitosis of the intestine, is the cause of flatulence.

On average, a person releases per day from 0,5 to 1,5 Liter of gas, into 12 to 25 occasions. The Herbivore S produce some more.

Effects on health

August 1st

Environmental impact

Methane being a Gas with greenhouse effect, the rejections of this one by flatulence can contribute to the Climate warming. The independent sources of methane rejection come from the breeding (in particular Bovin produces by the Rot S mainly) and of the Termite S. It was however never proven that the methane of animal origin has a significant impact on the greenhouse effect.

Anthropology

The fart was the subject of many scientific studies. The scientists seem to even to carry a very particular interest him. For example, the Prix Ig Nobel of Biologie was allotted in 1994 to W. Brian Sweeney, Brian Krafte-Jacobs, Jeffrey W. Britton, and Wayne Hansen, for their study on the prevalence of soldiers constipés in the troops deployed by the the United States, and particularly for their numerical analysis of the frequency of the movements of entrails (Borborygme S and Péristaltisme).

Good manners

At all times, the men put the question to know how to face an imminent fart. The answers to this question belong to the good manners.

Flatuler in public, except rare cases, is indeed perceived like a lack of delicacy, and can be interpreted like a particularly serious offense by the person victim of these nauseous vapors. The proof is that flatulence is in the beginning many conflicts. In certain companies, one pète in front of a person to express her dissension. It is in England, in front of the law, a cause of divorce; and the English couples least happy are more the producers.

Humor

On another side, flatulences cause also the laughter at certain people, which for others is rather bad taste.

Some use even of their talents of muscular control to play various melodies with their farts such Pétomane and Mr. Méthane. People laugh because of their small noises, others for the odor.

In the Old man who read love stories it is reported that at least certain Indians of Amazonia release “sound farts” to move away the spirits.

In Soup with the cabbages , extra terrestrial is attracted by the farts released by two peasants of the center of France.

Anecdotes

  • did Socrate formulate the assumption that the humming of the mosquitos was the result of a continuous gas expulsion? Aristophane in any case leaves it think in the Clouds .
  • the emperor Claude authorized his guests to be released as a public, when he learned that one of the guests of the one of its last meals had died not to have dared Peter with table.
  • Edward de Vere, count d' Oxford péta while it lent oath to the Queen Elizabeth I, and inflicted for that itself a seven years exile. After her return, the queen reassured it: “my Lord, I forgot this history of fart”.

  • Serge Gainsbourg composed a song containing noises of farts, entitled Evguénie Sokolov , which is also the title of a novel telling the history of a painter pétomane.

See too

Bibliography on the subject

  • Pierre Thomas Nicolas Hurtaut, the Art of Peter , 1751

  • Jean Pear tree (Dir.), History of manners , “the Man and the excrétum”, volume 1.
  • Livestock' S long shadow: environmental resulting and options. H. Steinfeld, P. Gerber, T. Wassenaar, V. Manor house, Mr. Rosales and C. of Haan. 2006. Rome, FAO. ISBN 9251055717.
  • Serge Gainsbourg, Evguénie Sokolov , Gallimard 1980. The parabolic tale of a genius of the fart painter.

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • Reading mp3 (delivers audio) incipit book of Serge Gainsbourg, Evguenie Sokolov
  • '' a parody curious about the poetic art of Boileau '', drawn from an almanac of pocket of the XVIIIe century reprinted for Pantagruélistes with foreword by Corvaisier junior (1879).
  • '' a Caen-native company of the XVIIIe century and the writings which it inspired '' (1859) by Alfred Canel (1803-1879).

Sources

Random links:Saint-Laurent-of-Carnols | Recession parodontale | Philippe Ribaudeau | Suchowola | Francesco Mochi | Grange_(unité)