Good restaurants should provide for restoration of mind and body. (Hopper)

This overview deals with SWALLOW while other overviews explore ideas in FOOD, DRINK, ALCOHOL and SWALLOWing. The consequences of excessive DEGLUTition is explored in overviews dedicated to ABDOMENs that ABDUCT FAT resulting in OBESITY. These themes require more than words, which prompted us to rely on a gallery of outstanding pictures

Manna - Divine Food. (Rubens)	Opposite of Swallowing - Emesis (Brueghel)

Animals sWALLOW mostly FOOD and DRINKS while humans also swallow ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS and when sick, MEDICINES. Alcoholics who WALLOW can be regarded as being ill.

Food and Drink can sedate or stimulate. (Couture) - (Steen)

Experts say that SWALLOW has two meanings - to EAT for "intake per mouth" and is the name of a charming bird that can SWALLOW insects in flight. (Insects fly in darting motions to avoid birds catching them while in flight, - SWALLOWS can also fly in darting patterns).

Food is shared among species. (Der Ast) - (Flegel)

SWALLOW in Spanish is deGLUtir as if to underscore that a GLOssy GLOssa or tongue is essential for swallowing. Those who deGLUt excessively may be called GLUTtons.

Gluttons can experience  nausea and vomit. (Jordaens)

Mammals start independent life by sucking and swallowing maternal MILK or other LACTIC or GALACTIC products. Sucking or MAMar in Spanish is a compound of words like MAMmal, MATernity, MOTher and so on.

Nipples for Nibbling. (Cleve) - (Feeding horn)

Young MAMMALS NIBBle the NIPPle while SIPping. SUPping on SOUP and other soft POTables or POTions from various POTs is more for adults.

Humans are gluttons. (Snyders) - (Snyders)
Hospitality is to welcome others with Food. (Zurbaran) - (Dijck) - (Rubens)

The left column offers a large array of links to explanatory notes and comments about word-ideas related to SOLID FOOD and FLUID NUTRIENTS, DRINKS, LIQUORS, ALCOHOL and topics like NURSING, TONGUE, MOUTH, JAW or MANDIBLE, THROAT, ESOPHAGUS, STOMACH, ABDOMEN or GUT and enlarged bellies related to OBESITY and PREGNANCY.

Social welfare programs are not new. (Teneirs) - (Breughel)