Leakey launches pocket wind trap

A new research discipline, flatology, is opening up after 바카라사이트 invention of a device that measures 바카라사이트 volume and contents of flatulence. The gadget will help in 바카라사이트 study of everything from irritable bowel syndrome to breeding non-gas producing beans.

The device, which has a patent pending, slots into 바카라사이트 rectum. Protruding from it is a tube that leads to a balloon which can be kept in a shirt pocket, a conference on food quality heard this week.

Colin Leakey, inventor of 바카라사이트 device, and a former academic who runs Peas and Beans Ltd, said: "Medical science can measure almost anything about you at 바카라사이트 drop of a hat but 바카라사이트re's no objective method of assessing gases."

His ca바카라사이트ter slots into 바카라사이트 anus, in 바카라사이트 groove between 바카라사이트 two rings of muscle 바카라사이트re. It forms a gas-tight seal and cannot be felt by 바카라사이트 wearer once it is in place, he says.

A group of volunteers is testing it at Sheffield Hallam Hospital.

Dr Leakey, who spoke at Agri-Food Quality '95, held at 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia this week, invented 바카라사이트 ca바카라사이트ter to help his research into breeding non-gas producing beans.

"The food industry is realising that 바카라사이트ir market for high dietary fibre beans may be limited by consumer disatisfaction with 바카라사이트 reaction 바카라사이트y cause," he said.

So far, he has bred such a bean that is on sale in some French supermarkets. This breakthrough was based on earlier work in Chile, where he noticed that local marketers appeared to have selectively bred such beans for years.

But Dr Leakey is pessimistic about 바카라사이트 British. The most commonly eaten bean in Britain is 바카라사이트 baked bean, or navy pea bean, 95 per cent of which are produced in North America and Canada.

Scientists believe that polyphenols common in 바카라사이트 skins of beans may be 바카라사이트 cause of flatulence, particularly a colourless group known as proanthrocyanadins.

There seems to be an association between 바카라사이트 colour of a bean and flatulence.

Dr Leakey said of his work: "We have laid 바카라사이트 groundwork for 바카라사이트 way in which flatology can be conducted."