Are vegetarians more flatulent than normal people?!
Are vegetarians more flatulent than normal people?
A diet composed nearly exclusively of greens, nuts and cereals is harder for the human digestive system to break down. Humans are not very good at fixing celulose and a stomach full of vegetable matter is likely to ferment. The wind of a vegetarian's rectum is going to smell much worse than an omnivore's. Every vegetarian I've ever come across smells really bad. It's sort of a cross-between cabbage, shopping trolleys, and moths. Could this be down to diet?
Additional Details3 months ago
Vegetarians also die much earlier than either dolphins or geckos
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3 months ago
Vegetarians also die much earlier than either dolphins or geckos
A New York Times (1998) poll on the streets of New York City found that "vegetarians smell and taste better" and "have more stamina and energy in the sack." The latter part of that survey, likely coincides with studies relating to diet and how restricted arteries affect sexual performance due to blood flow.
on the Howard Stern show, he had a guest who claimed he could always smell the difference between vegetarian women and carnivores. Sure enough, they brought out six or seven women and this guest proceeded to pick out the three vegetarians among them solely by "smelling them."
How much odor is produced also depends on the food you eat. Vegetarians might fart as often as meat-eaters, but their "serenades" do not smell as much because vegetables produce less hydrogen sulfide. The more sulfur rich the foods you eat, the more your farts will stink because bacteria will generate sulfides and mercaptans as they break down the nutrients.
According to a study on the "effect of meat consumption on body odor attractiveness" published by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health ...
Results of repeated measures analysis of variance showed that the odor of donors when on the nonmeat diet was judged as significantly more attractive, more pleasant, and less intense. This suggests that red meat consumption has a negative impact on perceived body odor hedonicity.
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Seventeen male odor donors were on "meat" or "nonmeat" diet for 2 weeks wearing axillary pads to collect body odor during the final 24 h of the diet. Fresh odor samples were assessed for their pleasantness, attractiveness, masculinity, and intensity by 30 women not using hormonal contraceptives. We repeated the same procedure a month later with the same odor donors, each on the opposite diet than before. Results of repeated measures analysis of variance showed that the odor of donors when on the nonmeat diet was judged as significantly more attractive, more pleasant, and less intense. This suggests that red meat consumption has a negative impact on perceived body odor hedonicity.
PMID: 16891352 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Holding the onions and garlic, switching to a more vegetarian diet may also help control odor, according to Dean Ornish, M.D. "When you eat a lot of meat, it takes a long time for it to make its way through your digestive tract," he says. "As it putrefies and decays, your breath smells bad, your sweat smells bad, and your bowels smell bad."
Activated charcoal.
First vegetarians are NORMAL people but they like to eat a different diet. You could say that people that eat junk food are not normal or people that eat only healthy food including meat are not normal. e are all normal but just have different tastes and ideas on how we live our lives. In answer to your question, I am not a vegetarian but I eat a low meat diet and do suffer from flatulence.
It could be the veg but more likely the whole foods, bran rich foods and roughage that I eat as much as anything. Meat eaters may have less flatulence but it is certainly more potent than vegetarian variety.
how absurd. and too funny. You dont think its harder to digest a decaying dead animal? too laughable for words. The human body knows exactly how to digest plant based fiber. It gets quite confused when trying to digest muscle tissue that is too similar to its own. I am a vegetarian, and I most certainly do not smell, or suffer from flatulance. When I ate meat, I could pass wind like a man, and had a definate odor when I sweated. No issues with it now. Perhaps those odd smells you describe were of yourself. Meat, full of parasites, blood, pus, urine, and all that other stuff sure could play tricks on your senses. If you have completed the first grade, you know that the body NEED dietary plant based powder for proper digestion. All of the supplemental fiber being sold to correct a meat eaters digestion is based on plants. I have yet to see a laxative or digestive aid made from meat
Beans are musical fruit. It keeps the meat eaters away...LOL..
Vegetarians are just as normal as everyone else.
Consider this fact - scientists are concerned about the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted from cow`s bums!! Does that answer your Q?
vegys are no different to everyone else. The body is not actually built to digest meat-look at our teeth! just beacuse we can doesnt mean we should eat it. We can digest cardboard, would you eat this?
so no, and my family aclways luahg bout it cos i never break wind lol
Any time you have a murdered animal decaying in your digestive system, you are going to have some putrified bowels.
It is much harder for the human digestive system to digest meat.
Plants are easier to digest and much healthier.
ha ha ha maybe thats why i couldnt get a date? no being a vegatarian is probably the most healthiest way to live. personally, i felt like i was on top of my game 24-7. i really didnt suffer from any gastrological pressures until i stared eating red meat/pork again! the only problem i faced was people tended to label ma as an ALIEN! i was only doing it to avoid any cancer causing elements--steriods in meats..ect ect..but as for smelling bad-no. i only smelled bad because i worked in a factory!
So, the troll returns.
Vegetarians *are* normal people. To insinuate otherwise is simply ignorant.
Please, go spread your hate elsewhere. I believe that billions of dollars are being spent to save the lives of unhealthy omnivores who have eaten theirselves to death. Shouldn't you be railing against them rather than making a fool of yourself on Yahoo! Answers?
In addition to the excellent answer from Vegan & Proud I would just like to say that I've been vegetarian for 15 years, and I'm no more flatulent than the next person. In fact, I'd say I'm less flatulent than my brother who eats copious amounts of meat! His gases literally smell like something has died!
I think vegetarians, due to higher fiber, go to the bathroom (number two) more often than meat eaters, thus making our insides actually *Cleaner* than meat-eaters!
NORMAL PEOPLE!!??
I am a vegetarian and I don't have excessive farting. My boyfriend who is a meat-eater is much worse. Why? because he is eating something that does not agree with him. Pork is one that many are intolerant of but don't know it.
You're facts are wrong. Do some research.
firstly veggies are normal people. veggies are not more flatulent than meat eaters. i know plenty meat eaters including my family who fart alot. the reason people fart alot can be down to diet. also not chewing food correctly and eating foods together that should not be eaten together. this makes your system work harder which in turns causes the build up of gas which leads to farts. people have to educate them selves about food combination. eat the food first that digest quickly first. IE fruit. people eat fruit last. which will sit on top of food that takes ages to break down and pass through. so you go and eat which sits on top and slowly ferments away. guess what happens.
proud&vegan
"How much odor is produced also depends on the food you eat. Vegetarians might fart as often as meat-eaters, but their "serenades" do not smell as much because vegetables produce less hydrogen sulfide."
LOLOLOL serenades!! haha