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Investigating the “Charlie Brown Effect”: Astronauts’ Chubby Faces and Hot-Sauce Cravings | Discoblog (Discover Magazine)
One of these pockets must have Tabasco.
Does this zero gravity make me look fat? Yup. It's called the Charlie Brown
effect, according to Michele Perchonok, NASA's shuttle food system manager,
and it's not because she's fattening them up with shrimp cocktail and chicken
consommé. Without the benefit of gravity, bodily fluids accumulate in the
head, giving the astronauts rounder, cartoon-like faces.
As anyone who's had a cold knows, more fluid in our facial cavities also means
congestion and weakening our sense of smell. But is lack of gravity actually
responsible to for all this? There's Only One way to find out: "Perchonok has
asked [food engineer Jean Hunter] and her crew at Cornell to test the stuffy
nose theory. To do that on Earth, volunteers will spend several weeks in a bed
where their heads are lower than their feet to try to re-create that Charlie
Brown effect." This might not be what people had in mind when they volunteered
for astronaut simulations.
Perchonok and Hunter got interested in the stuffy nose theory because they
noticed that hot sauce was a surprisingly popular astronaut request. People
who lose their sense of smell start preferring spicy ...
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