Wednesday, February 10, 1993 - North Shore News — 49

Short chains of sugar an infamous source of gas

cause more intestinal gas than When they reach the lower in-  @ Eliminate offending foods more digestible.
5 _~a other varieties. testine intact, they're vigorously from your diet. Consider trying Jactose-reduced
rnqquasiive And baked beans? These may attacked by colonies of harmless @ Take heed of gum chewing, as products if milk products cause
carry a double whammy because bacteria, producing gases as waste — it adds excess air. gas.
they're often made, or served, products. @ Soak dried legumes several Look in grocery stores and
with beer. And beer, particularly But it’s not just food that adds times before cooking, and discard pharmacies for the new drops of
dark ale, is as much an offender gas. Swallowing extra air while the soaking water. This washes  alpha-galactosidase, which can be
as dried beans, eating and drinking, and the away some of the oligosac- added to the first bite of the of-
Gas results when starches, fibres peculiarities of each person’s  charides. fending food.
and sugars pass through the digestive processes, also influence Rinse canned legumes it’s an enzyme lacking in the
stomach and smali intestine the gases produced. thoroughly. body the breaks down sugar-
without being broken down or ab- Here are a few sleps you can Cook starchy vegetables and based molecules in beans and
sorbed by digestive enzymes. take to control emissions. grains well. When softer, they're many other vegetables.

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perhaps comforting to realize that —i , "
flarztence after eating has been a 4°} : ’ / , relAL SLI CE D 3/ "BIRCH
social concern since correct table B*: f
manners joined hands with eating.
Well before Victorian prudery,
the condition, delicately known as
*‘windiness,” was a Social issue.
And interest in intestinal gas
assumed sudden notoriety during
the 1960s, after siudies determined
that flatulence couid. potentially
cause explosions during space
flights!
. Everyone generates gas — on
average, one to three pints a day. a) " " ee _— :
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Foods that cause gas for you,
however, may not. affect others.
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other vegetables and grains. ‘

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