Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Eat This
Chew your food. Mom’s been telling us this since our first teeth came in, yet, like a lot of what mom told us, we’ve forgotten this golden rule of digestion. Whether it’s because we’re always in a rush or we’re suffering from low blood sugar and thus starving when we finally sit down to eat, many of us aren’t properly chewing our food.
Although it may seem a nit-picky subject to harp on in a nutrition column, chewing is a very important, although often overlooked, part of healthy digestion. The drill is simple – put the food in your mouth, chew it a few times and swallow, right? So why aren’t we doing it?
“OK smart guy, first you tell me my dream of a cookie diet is a bad thing, then you go on at length about the fact that I’m probably riddled with hidden food allergies and now you’re telling me I don’t know how to chew?! So what’s the proper way?” While some health professionals recommend a specific number of times food should be chewed, you know how I feel about mixing math with eating. Nothing takes the fun out of eating more than counting; be it calories, grams of carbs or number of times you’re chewing.
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