There are three good reasons to eat slowly:
1. You truly enjoy food.
You'll get much more pleasure from visits to restaurants, if I try to eat slowly. When you swallow pieces of food, not having time to chew properly, you can not appreciate all the subtleties and nuances of flavor dishes. This is all like trying to appreciate the beauty, color, smell of the lake, sped past at high speed train. Moreover, when the food is a bit cool, its taste is felt brighter.
2. You reduce the risk of overeating.
Our brain takes 20 minutes to have to understand that the stomach is full enough and we are fed. Therefore, when you eat slowly, the likelihood that you will have time to stop before you eat too much, more loud.
3. You reduce the risk of stomach upset.
If you eat too quickly, it can lead to digestive problems. This is a great stress for the organism. Enjoy your meal, eat slowly. So you pleasure and your mind and your body.
How?
Eat, before very hungry.
If you are really very hungry, you find it hard to eat slowly. Do not wait too long, have a snack as soon as you feel the first signs of hunger. Or, follow a particular diet, then you'll know what time you need to eat, so do not catch very hungry.
Delay the fork until the chewing.
Sending food in your mouth, put the fork, and then munch away. Swallowing the food, take the fork back into his hand and repeat the process. This not only demonstrate your good manners, but also make you a slower and more carefully chew food.
Focus on food.
Often, people take food in the company. This can be friends, relatives, colleagues, or just the cafe. In such cases, it is important to keep its own rhythm. Do not pay attention to how quickly and unconsciously eat around you. Focus on yourself, on your food, to pleasure you get from it.