[Sca-cooks] eating from couches or lounges

[Ted Eisenstein]

>Swallowing is a series of muscular contractions
>designed to move your nutritional bolus from your
>mouth to the rest of your digestive system- your
>body's orientation in regard to gravity is relatively
>insignificant in healthy adults.

. . . .which is, of course, how several dozen astronauts
and cosmonauts have managed to stay alive even
when they're no longer ground-bound. I'd hate to
think that if they couldn't eat normally, that they'd
need to stay hooked up to intravenous nutrition for
the sometimes months that they're Up There. . .

Alban