Is farting healthy?

Call it what you will. Fart, crimp, trump, parp, poot, guff or thrapper. It's not a popular action.

But is it healthy?

According to the NHS, "The body needs to get rid of the build-up of excess gas" while the NHS24 website states "the large majority of cases of excessive flatulence are harmless".

Dietandhealth.net offer reassuring words. "Undigested food passes from the small intestine into the large intestine, where harmless and normal bacteria break down the food, producing hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and, in about one-third of all people, methane. Eventually these gases exit through the rectum."

In other words, it is entirely normal.

I only mention this in case Mrs Crimper should happen to be casting an eye over these words. She should be reassured.