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Inebriation due to carb consumption. No, really!
John J > wrote in
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> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:13:09 -0400, Shanghai >
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>>On 9/25/2013 1:36 PM, Susan wrote:
>>> http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/health...yndrome/?hpt=h
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>>> <http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/19/health...syndrome/?hpt=
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>>> It's called gut fermentation syndrome or auto-brewery syndrome, and
>>> it's "a relatively unknown phenomenon in Western medicine" according
>>> to a study published in July's International Journal of Clinical
>>> Medicine. "Only a few cases have been reported in the last three
>>> decades" according to Dr. Barbara Cordell, the dean of nursing at
>>> Panola College in Carthage, Texas, and Dr. Justin McCarthy, a
>>> Lubbock gastroenterologist, the study's authors.
>>>
>>> This was a topic on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me". One of the
>>> wits quipped that the patient whose gut makes its own beer is now
>>> known as "Texas Jesus". ;-)
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>>> Susan
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>>I'd like that recipe!
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> Yeah, more carbs for me!
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Let's see, the size of my gut right about now, I'd be good for about a
half keg...
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