Eat, Drink, and be Healthy Everyone is familiar with the old saying, "You are what you eat." A more accurate rendition might be, "You are what you absorb," because that's what digestion is all about: It's the process that converts food into substances that can be absorbed by the body.
Gas Be Gone All people occasionally suffer from the discomfort of intestinal gas - it is not unusual and usually not harmful. The average person passes gas approximately 13 times a day.
Blowin' In The Wind Flatulence, or digestive gas, is formed primarily by unwanted fermentation of foods we ea.