Comments on: How To Become A Slow Eater

By: Ellie

Ellie — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:22:01 +0000

These are all good ideas, but one more to mention that the picture brings to mind is to play with your food. Of course, this isn’t an adult thing to do, but kids do this naturally. For a good visual on an adult playing with food, see “50 First Dates”.
I guess the point I am trying to make is to have fun and don’t make eating such a precise, orderly, step-by-step event.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:18:55 +0000

I think it is all about efficiency. If you wolf something down it takes no time but then you are left with solid food getting transferred down the pipe.

If you take time eating, fully chewing and allowing the saliva to mix and start the digestive process, you are eating much mo efficiently.

- saying not efficient sounds less agreeable

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:13:51 +0000

Interesting, thanks.

By: Marcelo Lopez

Marcelo Lopez — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:15:01 +0000

What ? No love for Android ??

By: Marcelo Lopez

Marcelo Lopez — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:13:21 +0000

To piggy back on what Monique, and Kate said. It is a norm for bariatric patients to drink liquids up to no sooner than 15 minutes to 1/2 hour prior to eating so they are well hydrated. And then, not to drink liquids with their meals, but rather chew as thoroughly as possible your food.

The consumption of liquids with a bypass patient, for instance, where they don’t have the benefit of a pylorus to contain the intake of food before proceeding to the intestine. Taking in liquids would cause food to progress into the intestine more quickly than would normally. Therefore counteracting any feeling of “fullness” they would ( and should ) be accustoming themselves to.

With patients of the LSG ( or VSG, depending on who you’re speaking to ), they will have both the pylorus and hiatal to “assist”, but the basic idea applies with one further wrinkle. Since LSG patients have what amounts to a vertical stomach sleeve, the incidence of reflux would be greater because while the pylorus is restricting outflow, the consumed liquid mixes with food and digestive juices, and be more likely to be dispelled upwards, or back up into the lower esophagus.

And if it helps any, I’m speaking from personal experience.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:28:15 +0000

Try the app Eat Slower Pro for iPhone! It helps me to slow down.

By: monique

monique — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:02:58 +0000

It is a classic principle of Ayurvedic nutrition. For those interested in improving digestion, one should not take water throughout the meal according to Ayurveda. Drinking water throughout the meal is actually a strategy to not overfill your stomach with food, and therefore calories, so that is a principle of weight loss or maintenance more than anything.

By: Angela@spinachtiger

Angela@spinachtiger — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:29:50 +0000

I do everything really fast, and sometimes dinner is gone in a blink. I have to sloooow down.

By: Darya Pino

Darya Pino — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:09:22 +0000

I’ve never heard anything like that. Do you have a reference? I doubt drinking does any harm, your stomach has a whole bunch of acid

By: Kate

Kate — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:47:23 +0000

Love these Darya, but I have a query about drinking during meal times. I have always been taught that drinking – even water – during meal time is a no-no, because the fluids dilute the digestive juices and you don’t get a full digestive process. What are your thoughts on this?