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Food trials III: Yummy yummy pizza
Rebellion with pizza and a devil-may-care attitude for the consequences is all very well, but really, I should pretend that it was a controlled experiment.
The medium term 24-48hr type reactions are hard to analyse because home has been so disrupted the last couple of days. Truth be told I'm a bit over the obsessive recording of food and reactions. Data is good. Data is necessary, but I need a break from the little notebooks!
However, I should note that in the hours after my works pizza binge I pretty much became drunk, plus racing heart, shortness of breath and headache. For a while there I'd have said I was not safe to drive. But not dead, and I'm pretty sure that having very little to eat the following day helped the recovery along (The Transparent Diet: When Beige Is Not Enough(tm)). Plus of course not taking any form of headache, sinus or asthma medication.
The pizza reaction reminded me forcibly of what used to happen when I tried to drink wine, beer or cider when younger. I used to say I was a cheap drunk and "skipped straight to the hangover" but I've never drunk enough to have an actual pray-to-the-porcelain-gods hangover the next day. One, maybe two rum-based cocktails was my limit, and NEVER EVER when driving. Now I know it was the amines from fermentation causing the problem (and the dizzy/woozy/brainless/throbbing/ringing 'drunk' feeling), rather than the alcohol.
It would explain a lot about alcohol being fun for other people if it doesn't normally induce near-instant smashing headaches, palpitations and breathing difficulties. Pour me out and call me a glass of water. No wonder I never got the hang of pubs, and got all confused about publicly accepted fun.
*great light dawns*
So tell me people, what's it *supposed* to be like?
The medium term 24-48hr type reactions are hard to analyse because home has been so disrupted the last couple of days. Truth be told I'm a bit over the obsessive recording of food and reactions. Data is good. Data is necessary, but I need a break from the little notebooks!
However, I should note that in the hours after my works pizza binge I pretty much became drunk, plus racing heart, shortness of breath and headache. For a while there I'd have said I was not safe to drive. But not dead, and I'm pretty sure that having very little to eat the following day helped the recovery along (The Transparent Diet: When Beige Is Not Enough(tm)). Plus of course not taking any form of headache, sinus or asthma medication.
The pizza reaction reminded me forcibly of what used to happen when I tried to drink wine, beer or cider when younger. I used to say I was a cheap drunk and "skipped straight to the hangover" but I've never drunk enough to have an actual pray-to-the-porcelain-gods hangover the next day. One, maybe two rum-based cocktails was my limit, and NEVER EVER when driving. Now I know it was the amines from fermentation causing the problem (and the dizzy/woozy/brainless/throbbing/ringing 'drunk' feeling), rather than the alcohol.
It would explain a lot about alcohol being fun for other people if it doesn't normally induce near-instant smashing headaches, palpitations and breathing difficulties. Pour me out and call me a glass of water. No wonder I never got the hang of pubs, and got all confused about publicly accepted fun.
*great light dawns*
So tell me people, what's it *supposed* to be like?