Hi, > be expected to vary depending on his recent diet, or perhaps whether he > has been ill recently. I have heard occasional references to the idea > of diagnosing people of various illnesses based on the presence of > minute amounts of chemicals in breath (a neat idea, BTW).
There is some serious research about this: - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i-Rx-Nsf3E - http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v103/n4/full/6605810a.html - http://pubget.com/paper/18594325/analysis-of-volatile-organic-compounds-in-the-exhaled-breath-for-the-diagnosis-of-lung-cancer - http://www.jthoracdis.com/article/view/1560/html A little older research: - http://www.foxnews.com/story/2007/02/28/breath-odor-can-be-key-to-detecting-cancer/ - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3682722.stm - http://gut.bmj.com/content/early/2011/01/17/gut.2010.218305.short?q=w_gut_ahead_tab P. S: If anyone has any recent information about this (especially clinical tests), please let me know. It is an area which is of a great interest to me. Regards, Matej
