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"Everything
you want to know about flatulence, and some things you don't."
By Stephen
G. Bloom, Feb. 24, 2000
"When
I told my wife I was going to write a story about farts, she
said that if I mentioned her name I was dead meat. Fact is,
there is nothing to be ashamed of. Everyone farts. The amount
of gas and the volume at which a fart is expelled are another
issue. My wife does fart and she farts loudly but, thank God,
her farts are mostly odorless. This is not the case with mine.
To understand
the nuances of farting, or flatulence, I called upon Dr. Michael
D. Levitt, a gastroenterologist and associate chief of staff
at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Levitt,
64, could well be called Dr. Fart because he is the world's
leading authority on flatulence. He has had 275 articles printed
on flatulence in medical journals, as either the principal
author or the co-author..."
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the rest of the article
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Dr. Fart, in Salon.com: