Artificial sweeteners, particularly sorbitol, can trigger IBS pain, cramps, gas, bloating, and diarrhea. Artificial fats, namely Olestra, can cause abdominal cramping and diarrhea in people who don't even have IBS â imagine what it can do to you.
An integer is a whole number that can be either greater than 0, called positive, or less than 0, called negative. Zero is neither positive nor negative. Two integers that are the same distance from the origin in opposite directions are called opposites. The arrows on each end of the number line show us that the line stretches to infinity in both the negative and positive direction. We don't have to include a positive sign (+) when we write positive numbers.
Whole numbers are positive integers that proceed to infinity. These numbers are sometimes called natural numbers because they are the type of figures people naturally use in mathematics. Whole numbers continue counting infinitely upward because the number one can always be added to the previous number.