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8 Reasons You're So, Um, Gassy

The average woman passes about 700 milliliters of gas a day. Here's why you might be feeling even more bloated than usual.
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You've been staying up later and getting up earlier.
As if we needed another reason to obsess over sleep...but Yoshida says that disrupting your sleep pattern activates a gland that slows the movement of water through the intestines, and that can lead to water retention. She reiterates the popular sleep maxim: Go to bed and wake up at the same time each day.
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Published 11/06/2012
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