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Why eating too fast can leave you bloated

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Inhaling your lunch like a starving pelican guarantees misery. Swallowing massive chunks of unchewed food introduces excess air into your gut, leaving your stomach struggling to break it down and inevitably resulting in catastrophic flatulence.

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