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The data set is obtained from the survey "Vagal Tone and Epigastric Discomfort in Response to Rapid Soup Ingestion in Healthy People, 1996". The purpose was to investigate whether a quick food intake gave more symptoms than a slow food intake. The background for the study is that patients with functional dyspepsia (FD) show signs of symptoms after a meal of 500 ml Toro clear meat soup, drunk within 4 minutes. They also have low activity in the autonomic (non-voluntary) nervous system that controls your bowels (vagal tone is low). Many FD patients also have psychosomatics implicated in their symptom picture. We would therefore see if the healthy subjects showed signs of the same kind of symptoms by rapid consumption of the meal, if the degree of symptoms followed vagal tone and also look at the association between symptoms and neurotissisme in healthy subjects. The subjects met fasting twice. The one time they drank 500 ml Toro clear broth over one minute, the second time within four minutes. Both times they filled out a symptom questionnaire before and after consumption of soup, and the new methods were measured. The first time the subjects participated, classic tests of their autonomic nervous system were undertaken and they also filled out a questionnaire about neuroticism (general tendency to hypersensitivity). Ten of the subjects met a third time and drank soup in 1 minute again, so the experiment was in an ABA model. The main findings are that healthy people become more nauseated and fulfilled by drinking soup in 1 minute than 4 minutes and that the old and new tests for the autonomic nervous system have some correlations (and that healthy people do not have neuroticism and therefore it cannot be correlated with abdominal pain).