What exactly is the reason for not swallowing steak?

It was Archie Moore that did that, I'm pretty sure, and he used it to help him lose weight. I have a friend that started doing it when he fought pro in the late 60s and he still does it when he thinks he needs to lose a few pounds.

 

He got all the right things from the steak, proteins, vitamins etc. and lost weight. I heard also that this might cause problems to some because your body automatically kicks in all the acids to start digestive process and if there is nothing to digest, it will digest itself

 

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I doubt you'll get any real value from the food by just chewing it and spitting it out. Sure the digestion process begins with with the enzymes in your spit but the majority is done in the rest of your gut.

It might help with slating your lust for certain food by tricking the brain into thinking you've eaten it. We used to sniff chocolate when we were cutting and feeling peckish. No science to back that up without googling it though.

 

Everyone is looking for that secret sauce whether it is chewing steak and spitting it out , drinking your own urine , drinking blood etc. etc. Archie Moore was a fairly decent at self promoting himself and the story I heard was he was taught the principal by an Aborigine! If Archie was around today with weigh in 36 hours before the fight he would get to super middle with powdered supplement meals.

 

I'm pretty sure it was to strengthen the jaw muscles up in order to take a better punch.

 

No, wood bark chewing is for better chin..

 

When you begin chewing your stomach begins releasing acids to break the food down