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Chewing and Weightloss

©Bruce Tuten

If we have teeth, it's for a reason.. they're not there just like that.. they have an important role. Therefor we should develop a habit of chewing.. Many people think that chewing is for solid food only.. Wrong, chewing is for all kind of food including liquid and soft food like sweets and icecreams.

chewing adds saliva to the food, so if you don't give enough time to your teeth to chew  you also don't allow digestion to take place like it should. You just send food to your stomach that was not digested enough and didn't get the benefits of your saliva.

here are some of the benefits of chewing:

*Better digestion

*Better appreciaion of food

*Eliminating excessive gas and bad breath

*Reducing Appetite and cravings

*Making immune system stronger

As we all know, the biggest tip to lose weight is the digestion.. so we must do whatever we can to help our body to digest.. and it all start in the mouth, and by the way saliva  is important to oral hygiene and it's a first defense against bacterial infection.. anyway here are some habbit you should start doing that are related to chewing:

1- Take all your time in eating, do NOT eat in a rush. Give yourself  as much time as possible to chew.

2- Cut the food into small portions. The smaller the better, big portions would be hard to chew thoroughly.

3- Do NOT put much food in your mouth at once even if it's cut to small portions.

4- Chew thoroughly. The number of chews needed depends on the food itself and of the salivary glands, but try to make food go liquid and lose all texture.

5- Take all your time in swallowing. gulping an entire mouthful of food down your throat can cause choking or damage to the esophagus.

6- Take a little pause after swallowing, wait for the food to pass through your esophagus before putting more in your mouth.

More benefits:

• Chewing well combined with saliva are partners in digestion.

• Saliva plays as a first defense against bacterial infection. chewing food well means creating more surface area on which the saliva can act, so more potential food-borne bacteria can be killed.

• The bicarbonate in saliva may activate the enzyme cellulase found in raw vegetables.