Something else we didn’t mention yet is that chewing and swallowing food is part of what helps tire you out. You can really see it in folks in their late 70s, and 80s, who start finding eating a full meal where they have to chew every bite exhausting. They start seeing the appeal of pureed foods and soup! Other older people start eating much less in general (granted, as North Americans, we eat much larger portions than we really need already, and the geriatrics are often not very physically active, burning calories anyway).
The chewing is also part of the digestive process. Not only does it give more surface area for the acid and enzymes to break the food particles down enough to be absorbed, but chewing mixes saliva (which is slightly acidic and contains digestive enzymes) into the food as well.
Oh jeez, Tepoz!
All that tryptophan – she’ll sleep, provided the demolition derby going on in her inards doesn’t keep her awake.
that derby ALWAYS wins that fight in my experience…
lie down is not the action i would recommend right now
Something else we didn’t mention yet is that chewing and swallowing food is part of what helps tire you out. You can really see it in folks in their late 70s, and 80s, who start finding eating a full meal where they have to chew every bite exhausting. They start seeing the appeal of pureed foods and soup! Other older people start eating much less in general (granted, as North Americans, we eat much larger portions than we really need already, and the geriatrics are often not very physically active, burning calories anyway).
The chewing is also part of the digestive process. Not only does it give more surface area for the acid and enzymes to break the food particles down enough to be absorbed, but chewing mixes saliva (which is slightly acidic and contains digestive enzymes) into the food as well.