What is your approach to eating meals – do you eat them on the run, between appointments, without being aware of swallowing a bite? Or maybe the opposite – you celebrate every meal by preparing not only the dish, but also the atmosphere around the food? Do you bite slowly and calmly, take small bites, or maybe you will not have time to chew and a large amount of food is filling your esophagus at once? Think about these issues before it’s too late – contrary to appearances, it is important when it comes to maintaining a healthy figure.
Eat at least 12 eggs a week!
Plastic bottle, tap or filtered water?
Eat slower, you’ll be healthier!
It turns out slowing down the speed at which you eat can be effective while losing weight, at least this is what research published this year suggests in the online journal BMJ Open.
The changes in the speed of eating habits were in this experiment strongly associated with lower obesity and lower BMI, and less waist circumference. Wow! The study was conducted in Japan and should not in their results give rise to suspicion because the scientists watched charges for up to 5 years – that’s a lot of time to scrupulously observe some dependencies. It turns out that slow eaters are healthier and overall healthier lifestyle than people who eat moderately fast or very fast. Persons calm eaters are characterized by lower body weight than others: results showed that, compared with those who tended to eat quickly, those who ate at normal speed were 29% less obese, and even “Slow eaters” suffered from overweight 42% less frequently.
Why is it like that?
Admittedly, it was a study largely based on subjective opinions people, but it was also possible to draw conclusions that they translate the entire population. Namely, the researchers answered the question why it is better to eat slower and with what mechanisms is associated with the risk of being overweight co-occurring with fast food consumption. Fast eating involves with impaired glucose tolerance and insulin resistance. Is it possibly due to the fact that eating faster may cause it to happen after finishing the meal, we will feel full – we will have time to eat the entire portion before we will feel that we have had enough. However, in the case of slower consumers, satiety can occur relatively sooner, helping to reduce caloric intake – scientists suggest. So let’s eat (slowly) on health!
Źródła:
Hurst Y, Fukuda H.: Effects of changes in eating speed on obesity in patients with diabetes: a secondary analysis of longitudinal health check-up data. BMJ Open 2018, 8
Photos:
1. https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-in-gray-tank-top-holding-watermelon-768454/
2. https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-holds-sliced-pizza-seats-by-table-with-glass-723031/
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