Tuesday, April 08, 2008

New Study Links Asian Vegetable and Oral Hygiene to Emesis

New Study Links Asian Vegetable and Oral Hygiene to Emesis


For Immediate Release
Cambridge, Massachusetts

A new study, just released by the F.B.D. Research Center, located in Cambridge, MA, has found a link between Asian vegetables, good oral hygiene practices, and involuntary emesis, more commonly known as vomiting.

According to head-researcher Jeffrey Phatone, excessive scrubbing of the oral cavity, particularly the skeletal muscles that make up the tongue, can cause vomiting in some subjects when proceeded by the ingestion of green, leafy vegetables, specifically bok choy. The exact cause of the vomiting is unknown, but researcher Phatone seems to have it narrowed down to one of two possibilities. “Either the subject has an allergy to the vegetable, or he’s just a dumb-ass who doesn’t know how to brush…and what are the chances of that?”

Researchers at the F.B.D. Research Center plan on continuing their study in the field of emesis later this month in upstate New York by examining the effect of mountain atmosphere on alcohol tolerance.