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Canada geese too! <honk honk>
Content warning: a little graphic re: farting and pooping
I've only been vegetarian or vegan, and I generally don't have issues with farting (or any GI issues). What I eat doesn't affect farting, but there is another variable that is highly influential: time since last (full) bowel movement. On a healthy vegan diet, I tend to have daily BMs like clockwork (the body has metabolized everything and wants to empty once a day). If I eat a lot of (saturated) fat (which slows down transit time; ie, how long between eating and pooping), that is how I can miss a BM and be susceptible to excess flatulence for a while.
With more exposure, I think your body will adapt to eating high-fibre foods with less flatulence. My recommendations would be to monitor which foods are easier or more difficult for you to handle right now (eg, maybe fewer farts on oats than beans), and to 'work your way up the ladder'. My other suggestion is to consider the role of 'time since last BM' to the flatulence attributed to high-fibre foods. My guess would be you're getting gassy several hours after eating high-fibre food but you may also have low-fibre food from yesterday or the day before still sticking around - and I think it's probably the combination of the two that results in excess flatulence.
I think the analogy to exercise that someone else gave is very apt.
Thanks for spreading the word about this. I wasn't aware. What an unfortunate development. I've never encountered mandatory FR in Canada, thank goodness
Eg, "Soyboy", or fear-mongering that phytoestrogens like in soy may increase risk of estrogen-linked cancers but somehow the estrogen in (pregnant) cow's milk is not worth mentioning. In reality, there's evidence implicating cow's milk in the development of breast cancer* and both processed meat and red meat are recognized as carcinogens by the WHO
Bless the EU
Thank you! I updated it. Maybe I screwed up the YT URL the first time, because I didn't get a thumbnail automatically. So then I uploaded a thumbnail image, and I think that overwrites the URL
:D I know, right? I saw it on Mastodon (link in post) and had to pass the chuckles on. I don't usually share stuff like this
I believe the sole issue with uric acid levels is that at excessive levels uric acid can crystallize in the joints causing arthritis-like pain known as gout. Uric acid is acquired by consuming foods with purines, which we metabolize into uric acid. (So 'which foods are high/low in uric acids' is a bit of a simplification and doesn't produce great search results).
Here is one site that lists amounts of purine and uric acid in various foods. Values for lentils seem pretty similar to meat products: https://dr-barbara-hendel.com/en/nutrition/tables/purine-content-table
However, I wouldn't advise that you focus on refuting your family's claims that lentils have so much uric acid that you should stop eating them. You may want to mention that lentils have comparable uric acid to meat. But I don't think your family is arguing in good faith. They may be cherry-picking anti-vegan arguments with little information or true concern about reality and are essentially just placing a huge burden of proof or justification on you for your diet (while they face no scrutiny).
So don't go after the hypothetical omni 'what if about nutritional unsoundness'. Say I'm glad you're concerned about my nutritional well-being. If you think I might be at risk for gout, let's go get me some bloodwork. And if my uric acid levels aren't anything to worry about, then you don't need to worry yourself any longer about my lentil consumption
I love this. It looks like a profile pic for linked in or a dating app :D. "Bob. 10 years' experience in sales. Looking for drinks and maybe a little more with the right bird"
I'm smitten with Mittens 😻