Are You Striving to Consume Less Food - Chew More to Eat Less
In today’s fast paced world and lifestyle, we have little time for most of the things. We do all the things hastily including eating. We also want to reduce weight hostility without any effort. Here is a simple method to reduce your food intake, chew more to eat less.
Eat Slowly
All of us have been taught to eat slowly, chew more before swallowing and to concentrate and enjoy the food we eat. Though this seems to be very silly, this too has its own benefits. Let us see the details below:
How chewing more makes you to eat less
A research was conducted to study the differences between the people who chew more and those who ate hostility. It was found that the more the people spent time in chewing food, the lesser the food they consumed. This was applicable to all types of people – those with normal weight, slim and obese people.
Lesser Food Intake
Those who chewed the food 50 percent more and ate naturally take about 10 percent lesser food than the others with did not chew properly. Those who chew double the time, the food intake gets reduced by 15%.
Take Time to Chew
Chewing more does not mean that you chew hastily more number of times. You need to take time in enjoying the food rather than gulping.
You would have observed that when you are hungry and start having food, you find that for the first 10 to 15 minutes you feel that your hanger has not vanished even after consuming food. That’s because, the brain takes about 20 minutes to signal the stomach that you are full.
It has also been observed that people with normal weight naturally consume food in a slow manner by chewing more.
How do those who chew less eat more?
It’s a natural tendency to gulp more food in a lesser time when we are extremely hungry. Hence before we realize the quantity that we need to consume, we would have already eaten a heavy amount of food. This results in consumption of more food and calories resulting in overweight and obesity.
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Benefits faced by Slow Eaters
Being Slim
People who spent more time in chewing food were found to be slimmer compared to others.
Increased absorption of Nutrients
Chewing more helps to break down the food into smaller particles and becomes easier for the body for quick absorption of nutrients.
Chances to reduce weight
Your chances to reduce weight are high if you consume food with a good chewing. This might not work if you are high on consumption of junk food, fried items, voluntary consumption of large quantity of food, etc
Conclusion
Avoid eating food hastily. Take time to sit down and have food in a leisure manner. Make sure that you chew your food properly. Even if you are very hungry, make sure that you consume a nominal food quantity and give a gap of 30 minutes. You would find that your appetite has subsided. If you keep on consuming food till you feel that your stomach is full, you end up eating more.
