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Bull Elephants Advice on Treating IBS
Posted by Dr. Gifford Jones on Aug 31, 2010 at 12:12 AM
Irritable bowel syndrome
Would you like to have your picture taken in the nude sitting on a toilet? Then have the photo published in The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper? Surely, we’d all sue for such an indignity. But a recent photo showed Diew, a bull elephant whose been trained to sit on an elephant-sized toilet. No doubt the photo meant to stress that the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is an elephant-sized problem. But editors published the wrong photo.
It’s ironic that an elephant can be trained to sit on a toilet seat, but humans can’t be taught how to avoid IBS. It’s estimated that 25 percent of North Americans suffer from this disconcerting disease.
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