What happens when you eat and talk at the same time?
                                
                                
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                                The human body is designed with separate, but adjacent, pathways for food and air. While this seems simple, eating and talking at the same time can cause a critical and sometimes life-threatening physiological conflict, resulting in choking or aspiration.