Re: Gloat

Marilee J. Layman <marilee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:44:08 +0000, spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(Jonathan L Cunningham) wrote:

[Just having a cheese sandwich before going to bed - which one is not
supposed to do

Why?

Because it's one of those things one is not supposed to do?

Bearing in mind that for every explanation, there is a
counter-explanation advising the opposite:

Part 1: Eating before going to bed:
(a) You don't digest food while you sleep, so it just sits in your
stomach all night, fermenting or something equally bad
(b) You digest food while you sleep, but you aren't burning off the
calories, so eating before bed makes you fat

Part 2: Eating cheese before going to bed:
(c) Cheese before bedtime gives you nightmares
(d) Cheese before bedtime keeps you awake
(e) Cheese before bedtime gives you indigestion

Note that the whole premise of part 1 is in conflict with those adverts
for cocoa, or ovaltine or other hot drinks or six course meals, which
claim that they help avoid "night starvation" (whatever that is) and
give you a more restful sleep. I"m sure most of you will have
encountered the phrase "night starvation" although the adverts made such
an impression on me that I can't recall the actual product.

And answers (a) and (b) contradict each other anyway.

Answers (c) and (d) don't seem entirely consistent either.

Answer (e) has the merit of being consistent with either (c) or (d).

Hmm. I don't watch "reality" TV shows - but it occurs to me that they
could easily fund a few experiments along these lines: film a lot of
people eating a variety of sandwiches before going to bed, and then see
if they get fat, or have nightmares, or can't sleep etc. ... I suppose
sleep research would be too useful to be interesting.

ObSF: I'm fairly sure there is an HG Wells short story in which a
character blames a nightmare on a cheese sandwich. Or am I thinking of
Mr Scrooge? Or Bilbo Baggins? I'm sure I've seen it in print somewhere.

Jonathan

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