Gas-bloat syndrome may occur after fundoplication surgery to correct GERD. The surgery creates a one-way valve between the esophagus and stomach that allows food and gas to enter the stomach but often prevents normal belching and the ability to vomit. It occurs in about 10 percent of people who have this surgery. Information on Intestinal Gas.
Treasure Island, Florida got its name from an early hotel owner who buried and then discovered a couple of wooden chests on the beach. The hotelier claimed that the chests were filled with treasure.. News of the discovery spread quickly and people began calling the area Treasure Island. The name stuck. The main draw for todayâs visitors is not buried treasure, but the townâs three miles of white, sandy beaches on the Gulf of Mexico.
Black Sand Beaches. Black sand at Kalapana. This new black sand beach is forming after the old one was swept away by a lava flow in 1986. The sand on all black sand beaches on Hawaii is made out of tiny fragments of lava. In contrast to the green and white sand, most of the black sand is created almost instantaneously. When hot lava enters the water it cools down so suddenly that it solidifies, and shatters into large amounts of black sand.