{"id":447802,"date":"2010-03-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/19\/chew-your-food-be-nice-to-your-digestive-system\/"},"modified":"2010-03-19T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T17:00:00","slug":"chew-your-food-be-nice-to-your-digestive-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447802","title":{"rendered":"Chew Your Food, Be Nice to Your Digestive System"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Health<\/a>, Healthy Eating<\/a>, Eat This<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"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.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>. 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?<\/p>\n

“OK smart guy, first you tell me my dream of a cookie diet is a bad thing<\/a>, then you go on at length about the fact that I’m probably riddled with hidden food allergies<\/a> 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<\/a>. Nothing takes the fun out of eating more than counting; be it calories<\/a>, grams of carbs or number of times you’re chewing.<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}