Avoid Eating So Fast: Savor, Chew, and Limit Obesity

Sometimes it's exceptionally hard to eat slow and really chew and savor your food. Instead of taking the time to get the full satisfaction from your meal, you eat and eat and eat until there's absolutely nothing left, scarfing down your food and barely giving it any time in your mouth.
A few hours later, you still feel hungry, but you know that you're not "physically hungry" but you need to eat to take the edge off. You probably scarfed down some sugars, carbohydrates, proteins, or fats to get that fix you were looking for- but you could have avoided it all together if you had just eaten a little slower.
There are several reasons why you shouldn't eat too fast:
First, part of the processes that make eating great are associated with taking your time to eat
All throughout our childhood, we're taught that the tongue is the most important taste organ, but this might not be the case. Have you ever felt like you just can't taste a meal the same way when you have a cold?
It's because you can't.
The human body employs several different tactics to help you salivate and break food down better. Yes, the tongue does taste several different tastes (6 or 7 to be exact), but the mouth also plays a contributing factor in accumulating flavors and aromas. Studies suggest that as you eat, microscopic particulates of your meal form in your mouth and throat, and create a sort of invisible coat against the back of your throat that helps you taste what you're eating.
When you're eating fast, you don't develop these tastes, and your meal just doesn't taste as fulfilling or "good." When you don't get this feeling, you eat more to gain the same satisfaction from the larger amount that you've eaten.
Second, your body operates better when it feels fuller, you burn more calories and your metabolism works harder

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