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Shocking truth, in this fast pace world, our lifestyle and behavior are changing with the pace of technology. We always rushed into everything for work, catching our bus, submitting our assignments near the deadline. Rushing attitude we develop affect our eating behavior too.

Try to ask yourself when was the last time you chew your food slowly munching it and enjoy the flavor of those meal?

Or

Did you chew your food for more than 20 times before taking the next spoon?

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Chewing plays important in our health including oral health, appetite, weight management, stress and cognition. Appropriate chewing of ingested foods improves nutrient digestibility .

This eating habits, including appropriate chewing, are essential for optimizing nutritional status, maintaining the immune response and promoting well-being in humans.

Chewing food thoroughly is an effective strategy to prevent overweight and obesity. Fast eating supports the gain in body mass and lean mass. High energy intake over a short period of time could interfere with satiety signals and consequently lead to weight gain and an increase in total energy consumption in the long term .Through this mechanism, perhaps others, speed eating might also have a negative effect on metabolism. In fact, an association between speed eating and various cardio metabolic risk factors has also been reported in some studies shown in table

Table 1: Eating rate and its outcomes

DIT that mentioned in the table defined as Diet induced thermogenesis.

This is really interesting, the major root cause of our health problems arise from improper chewing. Have you guys still remember this saying "Drink your food, Chew your water". Exactly describes on importance on chewing our food. If you're on mission of weight loss journey, do take this important tips chew your food slowly

Here you go , lets have closer look on this flowchart below. This would give you an overview how slow eating can helps in regulating body weight.

Figure 1:Eating mechanism in regulating body weight

Slow eating ensure smooth digestion process. The PPY and GLP-1 hormones involve in maintaining body weight.

Larger view: Role of GLP-I

In conclusion, chewing is a basic fundamental that we need to consider as it induce DIT. Diet-induced thermogenesis, DIT, is the process of energy production in the body caused directly by the metabolizing of food that we consumed. High dietary thermogenesis may help to promote weight loss while a low dietary thermogenesis may promote weight gain. Don't rush, eat your meal at slow pace, chew it and enjoy it. Will see ya in another sharing.