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Why Do Healthy Foods Give Me Gas?

Beans, broccoli, and many other plant foods can be major gas triggers

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
3 min readMar 30, 2021

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In my household, for reasons that are obscure even to me, “fart” is a bad word. At some point, my wife and I must have decided that we didn’t want to hear our kids use the F-word all the time, so we adopted “toot” as a gentler substitute…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.