The presence of obsessions or compulsions, or both, are what distinguishes obsessive-compulsive disorder from other conditions. The obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time-consuming, and interfere with a person's normal functioning.
(1989) concluded that everyone excretes stinky compounds in their urine after eating asparagus, and the only variation is in ability to smell them. Other papers using chemical tests and carefully controlled smelling tests show that there is variation in excretion of sulfur compounds in urine after eating asparagus.
Back in 1731 the Scottish mathematician and doctor, John Arbuthnot wrote that asparagus gives urine âa foetid smellâ. Not everyone dislikes the smell, though: Marcel Proust said it had the effect of transforming his âhumble chamber pot into a bower of aromatic perfumeâ.