Do you remember your mom telling you to chew your food? I
remember being told when I was about 12 that you should chew each bite
of food something like 21 times before swallowing. I tried it but the
food dissolved way before I reached 21 chews, like way before. Four to
five bites in and the food had almost melted away. Now I tired this
recently and it was a much more different experience. Here's shy: As a
child I was given a lot of soft foods, like white noodles, liquid type
cheese, aka Cheese Whiz (sick, makes me feel ill thinking about eating
that), packaged cookies and countless sugary breakfast cereals, you know
the kinds that turn to mush less than a minute after you have poured
milk over them. These types of food quickly become what is called bolus
(boh-luhs), which refers to the wad of food in our mouth we chew right
before we swallow it. Nice mental image right, but you all know what I'm
talking about. I don't eat food like this anymore, so when I was
thinking about eating for pleasure, which involves taking the time to
actually chew food, I started counting while I was eating a salad. It
takes way more than a few bites of chewing to get lettuce, cucumber and
celery into a bolus ball of mush. And even after 10-15 bites it doesn't
really even turn to mush. But chewing is the only way we can really
taste our food, and how we should eat our food.
Digestion begins in our mouths with chewing, but chewing is not something food manufacturers want us to do. They want us to get full with the least amount of effort; to get us sated before we even figure out what the flavours in our food are; and to get us through a drive through and in and out of restaurants as fast as possible. In order for food manufacturers to get our food to mushy bolus as fast as possible they add huge amounts of fat, sugar or both. Deep fried food is covered in sugar-drenched batter and deep-fried in fatty oil. And burgers and wraps are dripping in sweet sauces to get it to slide down our throats faster. Gross.
Before we were able to cook our food, everything we ate was raw. The only way to ingest raw food and not chock is to chew, chew and chew it. We may not chew as much as we used to, and as much as we should, but research shows that our brains still favour chewing. We need to chew in order to feel truly satisfied. Chewing more means more time at the table. Chewing takes time, driving and 'eating' doesn't. And kids who have more table time eat more fruits and vegetables. When we eat food on the go, or even just eat quickly, we swallow before we even realize or taste our food, and then our brain misses the signal which would have been sent to our brain had we chewed our food, so we feel hungry less than an hour later instead of 3-4 hours later. So eat like your grandmother did and chew your food. And while you're at it eat real food like your grandmother did too.
Digestion begins in our mouths with chewing, but chewing is not something food manufacturers want us to do. They want us to get full with the least amount of effort; to get us sated before we even figure out what the flavours in our food are; and to get us through a drive through and in and out of restaurants as fast as possible. In order for food manufacturers to get our food to mushy bolus as fast as possible they add huge amounts of fat, sugar or both. Deep fried food is covered in sugar-drenched batter and deep-fried in fatty oil. And burgers and wraps are dripping in sweet sauces to get it to slide down our throats faster. Gross.
Before we were able to cook our food, everything we ate was raw. The only way to ingest raw food and not chock is to chew, chew and chew it. We may not chew as much as we used to, and as much as we should, but research shows that our brains still favour chewing. We need to chew in order to feel truly satisfied. Chewing more means more time at the table. Chewing takes time, driving and 'eating' doesn't. And kids who have more table time eat more fruits and vegetables. When we eat food on the go, or even just eat quickly, we swallow before we even realize or taste our food, and then our brain misses the signal which would have been sent to our brain had we chewed our food, so we feel hungry less than an hour later instead of 3-4 hours later. So eat like your grandmother did and chew your food. And while you're at it eat real food like your grandmother did too.
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