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Brain's Weight Switch Found: May Let Us Eat What We Want, Finally
(neurosciencenews.com)
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That's actually a myth.
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It's not about Macrobius and the misinterpretation of Vomitoria, but about how Romans threw lavish banquets as a status symbol:
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/ancient-roman-feasting-history/index.html
Men eating reclined, for many hours on end, doing their necessities right at the table, getting served by slaves and women, throwing rests of food on the floor, purging (vomiting) between courses just to continue eating, with women kneeling or sitting beside them.
And then there were Bacchanalia, but those were more about drinking and sex... so not that far from modern uncontrolled parties, only now we have better drugs.
Yep, the Romans really knew how to party.