Scarfing down your food? How to be intentional about meals
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Hey everybody, it's Marielle. You ever eat so fast that you get hiccups from just like inhaling the meal? Or you bite your cheek or your tongue because you mistook it for food? Yeah, I've done it.
And that's horrible because once you bit your tongue or part of your side of your mouth, you get a canker sore and it's going to just really disrupt your eating throughout the next days, right? So that's no fun.
That's Lillian Chung. She's a lecturer on nutrition and the director of mindfulness research and practice at Harvard University. Other signs you're eating too fast?
You may get heartburn and just discomfort, you know. Or later on, you might feel still hungry. and want to eat more despite of the fact that you thought you ate already.
There are a lot of reasons we scarf down our food. Tight deadlines, short lunch breaks, also the great American virtue of productivity that's infiltrated every part of our lives. Like, let me hurry up and eat so I can run more errands. Or if you grew up without enough food, you might have a feeling of scarcity while you're eating. And for some of us, it's just a habit. You know, we eat while we're reading emails or scrolling on our phones.
People are not eating, really sitting down to eat a meal. Very often we found ourselves eating something and doing something else.
Lillian practices and researches something called mindful eating.
Mindful eating practice encourages us to make choices that are satisfying and nourishing to the body. And as we become more aware of our eating habits, we can take steps towards behavior that will benefit not only ourselves, but also an environment.
Mindful eating asks us to slow down and notice our food.
It's about what to eat, how to eat, how much to eat, and awareness of why we eat what we eat.
And of course, how fast we eat. So today on Life Kit, how we can become more mindful of our eating habits. And in particular, what are some techniques we can use to eat at a healthy pace? We'll also talk about what to do when you don't have a lot of time for a particular meal.
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Lillian, how fast are we supposed to eat a meal? Like, is there a standard we should be following?
Well, you'll find most nutritionists urging us to take 20 minutes for a meal because it takes about that time for your body to get the signal to the brain that you are full.
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