Pave: Let'em Rip!

UPDATE 05.07.08: Here, apparently, was the healthiest man in France, Joseph Pujol (1er juin 1857-1945), le Pétomane. He delighted French audiences with his healthful -- and professional -- nether breeze. His act combined the arts of the flautist and the flatulist and included demonstrations of pneumatic skill and a ventilation of the French national anthem. It was all good clean fun, as M. Pujol was also a devotee of the high colonic, as many as five in a day. Front row center as refreshing as a summer wind.

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Le jour 356 de Sarko

Do not fear the microbe.

Popular French wisdom on hygiene

BURP, FART, SWEAT
Health Regimen Tailored To France

THROW CAUTION TO WIND, FRANCE TOLD
A French Doctor Is Urging His Countrymen To Give Free Rein
To Flatulence, Sweating And Other Bodily Taboos
To Reduce The Risk Of Cancer.

PARIS May 2, 2008 (Telegraph) - In his book, Le Grand Ménage (Spring cleaning), Frédéric Saldmann invites them to embrace the stereotypical British view of the French and to have a relaxed attitude to bodily functions.

He calls for a "May '68" of the body – an emancipation for belching, breaking wind and sweating profusely. "Eliminating" the two litres of gas produced a day by the average Frenchman "is a natural process", he writes, adding that retaining it can be harmful to the intestines. The French, he adds, should "dare to fart".

Dr. Saldmann also warns against compromising the natural bloom in the oxters with anti-perspirants. Not only do anti-perspirants bottle up toxins, but the good doctor assures his compatriots that a strong personal pong is a natural turn-on. [Pause.] And yet, stinky France is not turned-on (and this).

[He] says his countrymen should feel free to belch at will and certainly after each meal. This, he says, is the best way to reduce the risk of getting a hiatal hernia, an ailment which affects almost a third of French people. Keeping air in the stomach leads to more heartburn, which increases the risk of cancer of the oesophagus. The rise of this disease in France, he says, is due to "the burp that we no longer do".

Whatever the benefits of a degraded personal atmosphere, for those who require a little society, Pave recommends the more conventional practices of daily bathing and the unhurried stool in a well-ventilated toilet.

PFFT (What is this?): Daring farts 4 | The burp en vogue 3¾ | Rayonnement français 0