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Some experts even recommend avoiding certain vegetables including onions, radishes, cabbage, celery, carrots, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower. But if you avoided some of these foods, especially the nutritious vegetables, you'd be missing out on valuable vitamins and nutrients just because you're afraid of gas.
There are two main causes of gas: swallowed air and the normal breakdown of undigested food -- especially sugar, starches, and fiber. Your body expels this gas through burps and farts. Everyone does it. In fact, when your body is healthy, it's normal to pass gas 14 to 23 times a day.