1 the uncomfortable condition of having gas in the stomach and bowels
The clinical diagnosis is based on explosive watery diarrhoea, cramping abdominal pain, abdominal distension and flatulence after the ingestion of milk or milk products.
Therefore, legume plant breeders have focused on the elimination of flatulence-producing oligosaccharides from seeds.
These galactosyl sucrose oligosaccharides are present in viable tissues of many edible seeds, especially the legumes, and contribute to flatulence after ingestion.
Before this effort proceeds too far, seed physiologists need to determine the biological function of flatulence-producing sugars in seeds.
Adverse events included diarrhea, flatulence, weight loss, and abdominal pain.
These ranged from the trivial, such as flatulence, to the more serious, such as congenital malformations, heart disease and cancer.
I stigmatise a policy of that kind as fiscal flatulence.
In my opinion, it is nothing more than economic flatulence generated by intellectual over-indulgence.
