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Eating standing up

dogjones

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dogjones
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A lovely girl told me I shouldn't eat standing up yesterday. Something about 'your body will think you haven't eaten' or something. I couldn't argue with her cos of lack of evidence (and cos she's devastatingly attractive). But I do know that I have felt perfectly sated after eating a massive doner while walking back home at 3am.

Anyway, is there any evidence to suggest ANY difference, negative or otherwise, between eating standing up and eating sitting down?
 
No. It's also possible to eat a hamburger while standing on one's head
(did it once - just to see).

And congrats on inventing a new logical fallacy: "argumentum ad
pulchritudinam" :p
 
Well, I would have expecting to see something while in Iraq. For the first 9 months or so, we had no chow hall. After about 6 months, they brought in an MKT...can't recall waht it stands for (military kitchen trailer?), but it's a portable kitchen in a trailer. They set it up next to a tent with tables that were made for standing. So we had several hundred soldiers, eating almost every meal standing up for several months in a row. The dangers, if there at all, are vastly over rated :)
 
TX50 said:
No. It's also possible to eat a hamburger while standing on one's head
(did it once - just to see).

And congrats on inventing a new logical fallacy: "argumentum ad
pulchritudinam" :p
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Quality :D
 
You could have asked her "what makes you think that?". It's a non-confrontational, non-patronising approach. I'm interested that you think her attractiveness shields her from argument though, maybe that's another thread!

If anything, I'd have thought standing up would be better, not worse.
 
dogjones said:
A lovely girl told me I shouldn't eat standing up yesterday. Something about 'your body will think you haven't eaten' or something. I couldn't argue with her cos of lack of evidence (and cos she's devastatingly attractive). But I do know that I have felt perfectly sated after eating a massive doner while walking back home at 3am.

Anyway, is there any evidence to suggest ANY difference, negative or otherwise, between eating standing up and eating sitting down?
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How massive was that donor you ate? Just curious.:D
 
tkingdoll said:
You could have asked her "what makes you think that?". It's a non-confrontational, non-patronising approach. I'm interested that you think her attractiveness shields her from argument though, maybe that's another thread!

If anything, I'd have thought standing up would be better, not worse.
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Her attractiveness doesn't shield her from argument. He's considering arguing with her specifically because she's attractive.


I eat many meals standingh and many sitting. I can't say I've ever noticed a difference. But then I haven't paid much attention .
 
Phil said:
Her attractiveness doesn't shield her from argument. He's considering arguing with her specifically because she's attractive.
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I'm confused. I thought he said he couldn't argue with her because she's attractive.
 
like sleeping with the fan on, eating standing up will give you palsy.

It's a fact. You can look it up in the library of congress.

just don't do it. Instead, sit down with family and friends and enjoy a nice meal.

That too will give you palsy, but so does everything. At least you'll have a good time...

sleeping with the fan on can also be fun, but I digress.
 
dogjones said:
A lovely girl told me I shouldn't eat standing up yesterday. Something about 'your body will think you haven't eaten' or something. I couldn't argue with her cos of lack of evidence (and cos she's devastatingly attractive). But I do know that I have felt perfectly sated after eating a massive doner while walking back home at 3am.

Anyway, is there any evidence to suggest ANY difference, negative or otherwise, between eating standing up and eating sitting down?
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Well, you can tell her this: In New York almost EVERYONE eats while walking from one place to the other (In a quite hurriedly matter, may I add). Also, a lot of these people are fat.
 
tkingdoll said:
I'm confused. I thought he said he couldn't argue with her because she's attractive.
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No, you're right. I'm confused.

A chance to discuss eating standing up would be an easy ice-breaker. Hmm . . . .
 
Rob Lister said:
like sleeping with the fan on, eating standing up will give you palsy.

It's a fact. You can look it up in the library of congress.

just don't do it. Instead, sit down with family and friends and enjoy a nice meal.

That too will give you palsy, but so does everything. At least you'll have a good time...

sleeping with the fan on can also be fun, but I digress.
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I must say I disgress your disgression, sir. I happen to sleep with the fan on everyday and you should know it's a barrel of fun!
 
Relax, dogjones, it was a chat up line.
A beautiful girl sees you doing something and invites you to lie down instead....?
 
dogjones said:
A lovely girl told me I shouldn't eat standing up yesterday. Something about 'your body will think you haven't eaten' or something. I couldn't argue with her cos of lack of evidence (and cos she's devastatingly attractive). But I do know that I have felt perfectly sated after eating a massive doner while walking back home at 3am.

Anyway, is there any evidence to suggest ANY difference, negative or otherwise, between eating standing up and eating sitting down?
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You know, second thought: If I were you I'd forget this whole matter and ask her out for dinner standing up.... as an experiment, you know. Just to see if the whole thing is true.
 
Ron_Tomkins said:
I must say I disgress your disgression, sir. I happen to sleep with the fan on everyday and you should know it's a barrel of fun!
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Well, not to derail the thread but this is a perfect example of why national healthcare is a bad thing. I've got to pay for you very, very bad habits.
 
I don't think what she said was completely stupid, it just lacked context.

If a person is overweight, and has problems with portion control, one of the most common pieces of advice is to put all the food they are going to eat on a plate, and then sit down at a table and eat it (as opposed to, for example, just opening the fridge door and helping yourself to things directly from the fridge, or even as opposed to eating and watching TV at the same time). I don't think the issue that your body will process it any differently, but rather that you will not know when to stop eating. To those people who are not prone to overeating this might never be an issue.
 
There actually is something to this although her reasons (body not thinking it's had food) are uninformed.

The reflex curve that tells you that you are full is only activated after about 15min of eating. That means that for the first 15 minutes of a meal you are eating "free" from satiety. For people who want to gain weight this is very important and its easily testable at home. Just prepare a MASSIVE meal, stuff that you can't eat in 15minutes because of time issues and see how far you can get. Then try to eat the same amount in 30minutes instead of 15...

Now that we've all tested this, what has it got to do with eating standing up? Well, people usually eat standing up because they are in some sort of a hurry. That means people will often eat very fast when they eat standing up and this means they make better use of the "free" 15 minutes and get in massive quantities of food.

When you eat sitting down you relax, have a nice conversation, breathe between bites etc. All of this adds to a much smaller effect of those first 15 minutes of eating. This is why a good meal with the whole family in a relaxed environment will cause weight-loss in the obese long term.

Then you turn on the TV. Conversation stops and you get distracted. A tv program is about 40min usually without the commercials. All of this time you will be sitting down and will have food infront of you ready to be eaten. That means most people (because we actually have very little free will) will eat for this whole period.

So to recap: eating alot very fast will cause you to eat more. Eating slowly but over a long time will cause you to eat more. Somewhere in between there is a middle-way that is usually the "family dinner" length of time that will cause the least amount of food to be eaten.

This ignores all other factors irrelevant to this thread but important for the issue of satiety as a whole.
 
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