Apollonia told me recently that one of her sons had a little
disturbance after having dinner at her house. “I don’t know, Ma,” he said. “Maybe
it’s the meat sweats.”
Meat sweats?
I have done some research on this, and if you want to have a
good time with Google, you should do the same. Just do a search for the phrase “meat
sweats” and see what comes up.
Long story short: people who eat a lot of meat at one
sitting often begin to feel very warm, and then they begin to perspire. Picture the contestants in a hot-dog eating
contest, or somebody in one of those restaurants that give you another
five-pound burger for free if you finish your first one. In your mind, they’re sweating, aren’t they?
Of course they are.
There are lots of explanations. Myself, I get a funny choking feeling if I eat
a lot of beef; it turns out to be something called “esophageal stricture,”
which can be caused by lots of things, including eating too much meat. Also,
your body metabolizes protein differently, and large amounts of protein can
activate all kinds of strange processes . . .
But no. Most doctors agree that there’s no such thing as “meat
sweats.” It’s a symptom of fullness; your body is signaling to you that it’s
full, and no more food is necessary.
So let’s have some dessert.
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