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My own experience is that I can get the same satiety for the same duration with somewhat less food by taking smaller bites and spending more time chewing. This
by SiVal 10y ago
My own experience is that I can get the same satiety for the same duration with somewhat less food by taking smaller bites and spending more time chewing. This takes longer, of course, so my assumption was that the mechanism was simply that I would have eaten less by the time my blood sugar rose and turned off my hunger.
But I suppose it's also possible that I'm making the solids and liquids harder to gravitationally separate--essentially blending a smoothie with my teeth.
If so, just taking your time and enjoying the flavor of the food could be a more convenient and appetizing alternative to a chicken-broccoli smoothie.
- foooeee 10y agoTotally this. That's the problem I have with this trend for liquid food: you're eating food without chewing, and chewing is an essential part of the eating process as it gets saliva flowing, it exercises your jaw and sends signals to your digestive system to prepare. And besides, texture is as much a part of food as taste and how it looks.
- giardini 10y agoAny starches (complex sugars) in food are usually first broken down by saliva in the mouth while chewing. The enzyme amylase in saliva breaks starches into simpler sugars. Drinking food likely reduces the amylase content of the bolus (dose of food entering stomach) and should consequently slow the digestion of starches and sugars in that food. The pancreas secretes another form of amylase, so starches would eventually be digested anyway, just not as quickly. So your stomach would hold food longer and your pancreas would have to work a bit more. Not a bad thing: I often eat only because "my stomach feels empty". Perhaps this would reduce that feeling. "Amylase": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase "Role of Amylase": http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/role-amylase-8526.html http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/role-amylase-8526.html
- singold 10y agoI remember reading somewhere that the signal from the stomach to the brain telling you are full takes 20 minutes so if you eat slower you eat less food in that period when you are full but don't know it yet
- Bartweiss 10y agoAnd interestingly, drinking is the opposite - consuming liquid kills thirst immediately, and it won't come back for ~20 minutes even if you still need hydration. Both systems make sense, since you can hydrate in ~60 seconds but might need to stay hungry for ~10 minutes after you start eating. But they can both cause problems: hunger by prompting fast eaters to overeat, and thirst by letting dehydrating things like liquor satiate you.
- afro88 10y agoThis is exactly what I thought. The solution isn't to buy a blender, but to chew your food properly.
- wastedhours 10y agoAlong with the delayed reaction to feeling full, am sure I read somewhere that chewing longer triggers the brain into thinking you've eaten more as well.
- magic_beans 10y agoI'm very guilty of not chewing very thoroughly, and it causes me all kinds of digestive ails... But when I chew more than three times my JAW starts to get sore. How can I fix this!