There's another technic that I've been using to slow down eating. That's using a smaller spoon. So each mouthful is now smaller thereby ensuring more chewing and more mouthfuls overall.
While I am not a fast eater (at least I am slower than anyone else I eat with) I will try that. Having a smaller plate worked in managing amounts, so why shouldn’t smaller utensils work with speed. I still have the sets my kids used when they were toddlers. That should be good. 😁
I have always been very thin, and I have always eaten slowly. One reason is that I take a bite of one item, then a differnt item, a sip of drink, etc. until I return to the first item. Other people at my table tend to eat all of one item, and then all of a different item, etc.
My stepfather used to grill us over dinner, looking for flaws or problems he could jump on to criticize. We were a clean your plate family, so the sooner I cleaned my plate, the sooner I could be excused and get away from the interrogation. I learned to eat far too fast and I have struggled with excess weight all of my life.
I expect the excess adrenaline and insulin triggered by chronic threat may have a larger impact. It is definitely known that childhood trauma affects rates of chronic disease.
ZOE should also mention and encourage the famous French style of eating where you have long meals with lots of conversation. It's likely this style causes slow eating and slow chewing and huge life enjoyment. The French are famous for being slim when they are eating in their traditional ways and from their traditional foods and drinks. It would be great if ZOE could do research and a video exploring this!
Easiest way of eating slow I’ve found is, after taking a bite - put the spoon or food down on the plate until I finish the bite completely. I think a lot of people have a habit of taking multiple bites at a time leading to poor breakdown and digestion
Thanks for this podcast and the information provided in it as regards the speed of eating. In India, we know for generations from our ancestors that one should eat meals slowly and with taste. Since centuries Indians ate food slowly for better health benefits. I would narrate a few true life experiences of empirical value. Our ancestors advised to chew each bite '32 times' before swallowing. Why '32 times'? They linked it with 32 teeth we have in our mouth and they advised to chew 32 times to match the teeth number. This is just to put forward the idea that we must eat slowly. Eating slowly as above really allowed food to get thoroughly mixed with our saliva which along with food eaten slowly will fill stomach slowly enough to help proper digestion, slow down rise of blood sugar, allow insulin to take care of glucose and get the feeling of fullness of stomach even after eating 20-25% less quantity of food. Hence, food need to be hard enough for chewing more times and let the taste buds, flavour fully satisfy our brain to allow leptin hormone to be released from the brain to encourage us to put break to eating. Dr. Bipin Deshpande, INDIA.
Indians have known everything, they know everything, and they will know everything. Except the fact that every society has known the benefit of slow eating intuitively
I tried that for a few days, but that much chewing reduces the food to "soup," and I found it to be unpleasant and a lot of work. Better to take very small bites to begin with, and chew fairly normally, which would mix the food just as well with smaller amount s of material.
I note that my rate of eating is strongly associated with my level of hunger. It might be that people that experience more hunger, eat faster and eat more. Interestingly, every farmer will tell you that animals who have to compete for food learn to eat quickly and those who are not in competition, eat much slower.
Contrary to Sarah's theory, I'm much more likely to take a break for lunch since switching to working from home. Many workplaces have an "eat at your desk" culture. I was working in a factory building on an industrial estate by a busy road with nowhere nearby to go for a lunchbreak. Everyone just ate at their desk. Now I can take 20 or 30 minutes to sit in the lounge or garden and get away from the screen for a bit. Much more civilised!
For me, teleworking has helped my eating habits tremendously, including taking the time to sit at my table and eat a meal, at a slow pace, cooking home meals (simple and healthy ones), not eating as much processed food or restaurants, etc.
I was ‘trained’ to eat fast at school. We were told to eat very quickly. Also it was better to eat our food before some kid ate it or did something vile. I never had a weight problem or overeating disorder and I am the fastest eater in the East!! 😊So there is more to it.
So you watched this video just to discredit it and confuse people who need this advice? If you eat what you want and don't have weight problems, why are you here?
@@mst1740 I am not discrediting this video I am reporting my experience with fast eating. Also a previous video by Zoe actually stated that people who chewed food slowly consumed more calories than those who did not chew. I also do not eat anything I like. I now have a strict gluten free, lactose free diet with other adjustments but my weight remains the same regardless of diet or speed of eating! If I eat a big meal I eat smaller meals later because I am not so hungry. The problem with people who keep gaining weight is that after a large meal they eat more large meals! I do not eat biscuits or other carbs between meals. I also have 2 eggs for breakfast which being protein is way better than cereals with milk and sugar. Eggs are full of protein which staves off hunger.
@@themountain3461 also other factors including attitudes, availability of food, meaning of food, person's actual life story, events, can be trauma, situational factors. Eating disorders, disordered eating issues are often complex. Slowing down can help, but eating slowly can actually be a factor, symptom or a result of an eating disorder.
@@mst1740 because Zoe is a "science light" channel. You're better off getting proper nutrition advice, rather than focusing on a trivial aspect. Goes without saying that mindful eating is better than trying to wolf down as quickly as possible, but what you eat is more important
Just caught up with this. I was born early 50s and was taught to chew thoroughly. When I started working for the NHS, I had to eat quickly, just in case an emergency occurred. I have tried and tried but still seem not to be able to slow down, as if eating is a waste of my time. Like it said in one of my old school reports...Must try harder.
I was also born in the early 1950s. Whenever I visited my grandmother (born 1880s), she always told me at table to "chew it well". She in turn had been told by her her grandparents that Wellington was reputed to chew each mouthfull 100 times - which does sound super slow. Incidentally, it used to be just ordinary civilised table manners to put down your knife and fork between mouthfulls.
I worked in the Hotel industry all my life and we did not have much time for Lunch and Dinner as you can guess even after retirement this habit is still very much a life. I never had a problem with my weight until I hit 60. Started a sort of Keto diet when I was 74 years old and nearly hit my youth weight. Of course, cut sugar, alcohol and most carbs. did help Never had Diabetes or high Blood sugar and if you are older eat only twice a day is the key.
I just looked at a typical day at a school where I live. From bell to bell for lunch there is 30 min. Considering that the students need to walk to the cafeteria, pick up their food, then eat it before the next bell rings, they probably have only 15 min to eat. In addition, at least one group went directly to physical education from lunch. I can imagine how those kids felt. 😢
Something I've noticed since stopping eating ultra processed food and preparing whole food is I no longer want to wolf food down. It takes time to prepare so I want to give it the respect my effort deserves!
ruclips.net/video/KDY7XYmb6nI/видео.html I remember our gym teacher at school in 1960 solemnly chewing and saying that "research shows that slower eating is good for you". Granny said: Don't gobble. Chew your food well. Eat your greens. Don't snack - it'll spoil your dinner.
Hello Zoe, I couldn't figure out another way of reaching you. I want to suggest an episode regarding "food digestion/digestion issues". I do intermittent fasting and I always wonder about how many calories can be consumed at once, what difference does splitting the foods across several or lesser hours makes (if any), etcetera. Anyways, keep up the great content, cheers!!
Can I just say that parents, particularly women, 60/70 years ago were super busy. Walked everywhere, cooked fresh, walked to different shops didn’t have cars. Walked the kids to school etc. being busy is not the reason people eat badly but supermarkets are !!!
We had home deliveries of meat, milk and bread. My dad delivered oil to farms and brought home all the veg, mostly carrots, parsnips and potatoes. We didn’t use supermarkets much. Anything else came from the corner shop.
Some Taoist precepts. Eat in silence, pay attention to your food. Chew your food till it is liquid. Pay attention to your body as you swallow and digest your food. These will help you to gain more chi(energy) from your food. Also do not eat till you are full (only to 70%). Becoming over-satisfied with food will starve your spirit.
A liquid form of a chicken sandwich with mayo in my mouth was enough to make me stop eating that way. And my jaw muscles hurt, too. If I wanted soup I would fix soup.
Some people like to eat slow, some like to eat fast. I've always been ashamed of my fast eating and tried to put the brakes on in public, eating out and such, because people link it to gluttony. But I just don't enjoy my meal as much when I'm eating slowly, just the same as a slow eater hates being rushed. In my case I don't eat more, when I'm finished I'm finished. But I do get more gassy!
This was excellent, I think doing this slower eating will help me as even now I've retired I'm still in rush mode I used to eat between jobs, mindful eating from now on for me.
I'm a very fast eater but I don't go for seconds just because I finish first. And conversely, on the few occasions when I eat slowly because I'm talking to someone during a meal, I don't leave a small amount of food (equivalent to 60kcal) on my plate just because I'm technically not hungry anymore. If I get a plate with a normal portion size I usually eat all of it no matter how slow or fast. When I cook at home the decision of how much I eat is usually made at the time I start cooking or when I make my plate, not when I eat. That would just be wasteful. I can see how this might be different in the US where you get unreasonably large portion sizes in restaurants but other than that it seems to me that this might be more of a correlation rather than causation.
Agree with those that state the USA serve portion sizes for up to three persons in some cases. When I'm visiting the US (from Australia) my sister and I generally order 2 or three entrees and share all. I eat slow when in company of others, however, I eat fast when on my own. I believe it's what you eat and the qty that contributes to obesity. I mentally by habit eat 1300-1500 calories a day and eating fast has no impact on my weight. When I intake the same calories and do more physical excercise I generally lose weight. How fast or slow I eat has no impact. Age 67, 120 lbs, 5'3. The majority of food I eat don't have labels. I will admit, eating slower makes me mindful of the flavours and textures of the food and I savour my favourites more.
@@sharinaross1865 depends where you live. Australia is as big as US excluding Alaska. In WA Fish, beef and vegetables, again it depends where in Australia you live. Cheers
And in-top comment: found out that chewing slowly is the great way to feel fullness faster and to understand clearly what I like in my lunch and what I don’t. I had problems with this differentiation because of ED in past.
Perhaps you should visit Plum Village in France- where mindfulness in all endeavors are taught and encouraged, including, and especially Eating! Taste each bite of food as a practice...for one meal each day and see. Feel the texture of each mouthful and the flavors. I notice how much I have been gobbling down my Plant Based meals lately and I want to Slow Down!! Thanks! 🙏
I always remember my great grandmother told us kids to chew each mouthful 15 times before swallowing and it always made a lot of sense to me. I notice that most people chew far fewer times than that, and have a "slower metabolism" (or whatever the PC way is of saying they have more fat tissue these days). Apart from anything, chewing more times means I get to enjoy the taste of the food more. Since I'm not a supertaster, I have to try harder to appreciate the taste of food.
Its partly because work places in the uk dont allow their workers enough time to eat,so they are forced to eat quickly. I think its attrocious how people are treated. In France everybody gets a proper lunch break,and workers are more productive. What are we doing to ourselves,and why?
A similarly interesting, if not odd, research topic would be comparing health and weight of people who eat everything on their plates and people who stop eating when they’ve had enough, even if there is food left on the plate.
Sounds like a lack of exercise, rather than eating speed. As an ultra-runner, I am practically forcing the food down to keep my speed up. Sugar? I practically mainline the stuff on 6 hour plus runs/cycling. Nothing like a bit of long duration exercise to break up metabolic issues.
I should add: I am in my late 50s, resting pulse about 50, blood pressure normal. If we want to play the "eat like our ancestors" game, both hunting and gathering takes quite a bit of time and energy. While there may have been a brief period at the end of the last Ice Age when herbivorous mammals multiplied on the newly spread grasslands, that was merely a historical blip. For most of human evolution, getting food involved a lot of movement and work. The odd "chief" may have been fat and lazy, getting others to do the manual labour of actually catching/finding food, but for most of the population exercise was compulsory to avoid starvation. So rather than "eat less" or "eat slower", the conversation should start with "exercise more" and THEN build on that with food etc. While the phrase "you cannot outrun a bad diet" has some currency, once one's exercise gets beyond a certain level and duration, one is often so wiped out that one has to remember to actually eat.😂
Got no time? Add up your "leisure screen time" (TV, RUclips, social media). Divide by 2. Hmm. Seems that many folks have plenty of time for more exercise - but they choose not to. And will grasp at any straw and buy any apparent "wonder method" or "wonder pill" to avoid the simple answer - less screen time, more moving time. So stop watching videos on "hacks" to lose weight, and use the time saved to move about more. Simples.
I've been a fast eater for all of my 76 years and my weight never varies unless I'm very ill in which case I drop and it takes a while to recoup. This doesn't happen often as I'm very fit and healthy. I think today, families have left the table so to speak, eating in front of tv, computer etc or on the run between events. Processed food is easier to eat so this could be a reason and it's usually full of sugars. I've continued to sit at a table to eat and my diet doesn't vary much and is considered healthy. In recent times I have developed a slow motility oesophagus, age related I'm told. I now eat slower (oh so hard after so long) and wonder if my recent weight loss or extra exercise is the reason. All my blood results and blood pressure are perfect. I certainly have no wish to lose more weight and don't want to eat fast again due to the pain it causes. Hmm, I will need to do some research I think.
If weight loss becomes a problem, drinking more of your calories can make up for solids that you cannot eat enough of. Nutritional drinks have about 250 calories each, so two a day would help you maintain your weight. You could also make those at home with fresh fruit, fruit juices, milk/yoghurt, nuts, etc. in a blender.
Sorry for the off-top comment but could you please say, what pronunciation is Jonathan’s - British or American? I’m an English teacher from Russia and I found Zoe’s pronunciation pretty British. But what about Jonathan?
1:10: 🍽 Eating rate has an impact on our health, including weight and appetite. 4:34: 🍽 Eating quickly is associated with excess body weight and various health risks. 8:42: 🍽 Eating slowly may have benefits such as lower glucose response, weight loss, and feeling more full. 11:00: 🍽 Eating mindfully and considering the texture of food can impact our eating habits and health. 14:41: 🍽 Eating speed and food texture are important factors in our dietary habits and can impact our health. 18:41: 🥦 Eating fiber-rich foods can improve long-term health and potentially increase lifespan, but they are less palatable and require more chewing compared to ultra-processed foods. Recap by Tammy AI
It would be very interesting to investigate what happens when one group eats with their eyes closed vs eyes open, vs bombed by social media behind a laptop.
I know I eat too quickly, so 2 years ago I started eating with chopsticks. Sounds silly, but it works for me. Still working on being aware of chewing my food more. I am WFPD and OMAD.
I always put down my cutlery between most mouthfuls, I eat slowly and chew lots, much more so now since stomach surgery but I have always been that way and have always been a thin person. Al really good information which most of us should take on board as its never too late to change.
@@Dosadniste2000 Oh but I love my food, you must be kidding I am part Italian and I make everything in house including bread, yoghurt, marmalade, Jams and preserves and also pasta without a machine. So you got the wrong end of the stick there, I just eat sensibly without the shovel technique.
@@artycrafty9209 How very Italian of you to make your own yoghurt 😄 Jokes aside, people who do that seem to me to have some eating , chewing swallowing problem
@@Dosadniste2000 Seems like you have the problem mate, your hatred and sarcasm for anyone who is not in your group is loud and clear. Why you bothered to listen to this video I dont know as everything in it you seem to hold in contempt? and why your started bashing at me for no reason is weird, still we know the internet is full of keyboard warriors.
I have never experienced anyone eating slower than I do. I have always been slim, almost always at my perfect body weight. However, because everyone eats faster than I do, and we know that I'm not the only thin person on the earth, I can say there are many thin people who eat fast. I personally know many sen this people who eat very fast, and some overweight people who eat quite slowly. So I wonder what you mean by a slow eater. What is the metric? I do like that the guest points out that Eating Rate does not only impact the size or shape of the body, but also other aspects of metabolic health. And I love that the host explained the idea of randomized trials to help isolate and pinpoint what's really going on.
Interesting topic but the content turned out to be a little disappointing for me. I know one counter example doesn't invalidate the stats, but I've always been a very fast eater and am thin with very low body fat and am at the low end of the generally accepted healthy range range for my weight. Eating slower to lose weight doesn't really help me as I would like to put on weight. Having said all that, I eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables and hardly any junk food (which for me includes cakes, biscuits, puddings, sugary things, etc). Wrt covid, if anything, I eat more slowly now than pre-covid. However, I have had some problems with digestion over the last 3 years and would have liked to see more content about how the pace of eating impacts one's digestion.
What's crazy is that me being skinny is my status and I am so weak now that I can only jog for a minute. I can lift 15 pounds and 10 pounds. My arms are small and I am to skinny to be athletic.
@@LoveJoyPeace4Life my house is very cold in winter so…don’t we tend to do things the way our parents brought us up to? Strangely reading or something means I put my fork down between mouthfuls anyway but eating so slow a nice curry goes to waste is not my idea of a ‘fun way to lose weight’😝
@@deborahnottingham5988 So use a plate that has a warmer in the bottom. They make them. Or, take a break at some point and reheat the food. Or, take only as much as will stay warm, and leave the rest in the pan on a warm hot plate. In a restaurant, take the cold leftovers home in a doggy bag.
What about the mechanical effects of fast (over)eating? Doesn't a quickly stuffed belly also make the belly muscles give in and sag and thus exacerbate the big belly look?
The problem for a lot of us slow eaters is that lunchtimes have been reduced in many professionals from 1 hour to half an hour. I can't eat my lunch in half an hour slowly I have had to start wolfing down my food so I am back on department in time.
This doesn't add up. I eat fast but I'm not overweight. I do have digestive issues but if anything I struggle to keep weight on. I have low blood pressure, low cholesterol and a normal blood sugar range. 🤔
I just started paying attention to how fast I eat . When I eat fast I can eat a full plate of spaghetti and meatballs no problem along with bread. But about 1/2 hr latter my belly would feel like it was going to explode because of how super full I was. Here’s what I found just by eating a smaller portion slower. It takes about 20 minutes for my brain to catch up with the food in my stomach. So I’ve been retraining myself to wait at least 20 minutes after have a smaller meal to see if I’m actually still hungry. Most of the time I’m not. I have 25+ lbs to loose. Been losing about 2lbs a week just by eating smaller portions slowly.
Should we wait to drink water at the end of the meal rather than during? i know people who do this and have said it's better for overall digestion, wasn't sure how true it was.
Great to have a new podcast, but what happened to the HRT podcast? I received it in the newsletter, but my hearing is not that great, so I always wait for it to be posted on here, so I can watch it with subtitles.
Assuming people have been on their hols as this took time to appear as well plus their annual meeting is soon so guessing lots of prep going on. Sure it will appear.
@@AlanBoulter she was looking for a different podcast on Menopause to be shown here so she could view with subtitles. All are available on audio but now here with videos currently.
I think its also “training” I have a very good diet and I neither crave nor enjoy HP or sugary foods. I notice friends are really “addicted” to HP and sugary food and don’t want to really try it and do not persist with a healthy diet….but are not happy with their eating/weight/health
I thought Sarah stumbled across a very obvious way to slow down: She mentioned when out with friends and engaged in conversation ...... If we are in social settings more often, that will slow down the intake. If we eat alone, or when in a hurry to get somewhere, it will be the opposite.
Actually eating too fast is an indicator of low levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. The faster someone eats while not consciously determining the speed one is eating, the lower their dopamine levels are. In fact there are similar indicators for serotonin & noradrenaline levels too. Serotonin levels are inversely related to social anxiety levels, while noradrenaline is inversely related to sustained erections. Of course other things influence these things too.
I agree, but it is a distraction that can make you miss out on tasting and smelling your food. For normal weight folks, may not be an issue, but mindful eating can help us enjoy the food more. I used to always read a book at the table, but I found that I also used to eat a snack while reading on my bed as a teenager.
Being in the middle of the Zoe test programme (see my recent videos) I’m slowly trying food that are better suited to me …. The trouble is I let myself get too hungry before meals and forget to slow my eating down. Perhaps I need more healthy snacks to hand…
My daughter was the slowest eater ever and by the time she was 29, she was borderline morbidly obese. I taught my kids good nutrition, daily exercise, how to cook from scratch and to avoid junk food. One is obese on nutritious food, the other is obese and a junk food junkie. The third runs marathons and is model thin and in the past was bulimic. They all eat at relatively the same rate.
When my girls were young and we had horses we used to inhale our food we were so hungry from all the manual work. No weight issues. Horses for courses one might say. Nowadays I'm a slow eater with no weight issues.
I put my dog on a sectioned bowl to slow down his eating. He has much less digestive problems since I did this. He use to throw up and have diarrhea, but no more.
I do eat quickly, the biggest reason being I have a very strong preference for hot food. And I hate how mushy food gets from all that chewing. Anyone have experience of this and how to change?
I dont believe a word of this. So she is saying if you wolf down a meal of a known calorific quantity and another person sips the same exact meal, the wolf down person will end up fatter? I dont think so. In most households where they cook their own meal, each meal is of a fixed quantity, you either make too much and eat all of it anyway or dont finish it and throw it/save it for another day. It is very unlikely that if you wolf down that meal, one would get up and make more. I dont believe eating speed for the exact meal makes any difference it is how much you eat that makes a difference. So the other place where eating fast can make you gain weight is in those unlimited buffet restaurants, you eat and eat until you cant walk. I find you can eat a lot more of you eat slowly in one of these places. Then have a rest and seat some more, obviously to get your moneys worth 🤣🤣😊😊
Why is this podcast called ZOE? If it's named after (or in honour of) Dr Zoe Harcombe, then this should be mentioned. It would also be good manners (and respectful) to check with her if she minds this, given that many of the opinions voiced in this channel's various podcasts are antithetical to hers.
At one point in my life I used the technique of cutting my food in to itty bitty bites. I lost 30 lbs eating that way. I ate the same foods, but each one got the "treatment" after seasoning. I just started this technique again today, and I did it with an egg salad sandwich with half a banana. I filled the plate with all the little pieces. What I am noticing is that we actually get more pleasure from this method, because we get to taste the food more times. If normally we taste it 20 times, and small bites make us taste it 40-50 times, isn't that more enjoyable? I think our brains register that we are eating more because we are tasting more. Just a theory. And sips of water every few bites helps fill us up, too. Smaller plates, smaller forks/spoons (how about eating a dish of ice cream with a stir stick?) could help. Just know that you can have more food if you are still hungry, so you don't feel like you are starving yourself. But treat each plate the same way, and you have little choice but to slow down and taste everything more.
I am trying to eat slower but can't bear the thought of food in my mouth. I also eat fast subconsciously and keep thinking I don't have any time to lose.
The rate of eating seems genetically determined and is a trait that probably at times gave out ancestors an evolutionary advantage. Sadly that has now come back to bite us now that we have an abundance of food and the advent of UPF. Eat real food. Slow down. Some useful tips here. Avoid soft food. Make your own sourdough not shop bought bread.
Don't give into the work constantly ethos. Take your lunch break away from your work so you can eat slower and have some mental time away from your job during the day. Sit down with your family and eat together. We need to slow down our pace of life instead of being in a constant tizzy of work, work, work. F*$! your job. It isn't worth taking years off your life or having a stroke from the stress and poor lifestyle habits for optimal output.
Where is the evidence that slowing down a fast eater actually results in weight control? The assumption in this video is that if you eat more slowly you feel full faster which may well be the case. However, what is the result if the caloric intake is the same and only the eating speed changes. Then there's eating cold food.
Good luck trying to eat the same # of calories when you eat slowly though. I just suffered a mouth sore and I found I ate half the amount. I liked it so much that after I recovered I deliberately cut my mouth with a box cutter.
@SamShank175 HDLs are the good cholesterol. LDLs deposit plaque as a result of inflammation caused by sugar and carbs. Cut carbs and your LDLs will be reduced, whilst increasing your HDLs.
@@warrenbridges1891 what does that have to do with calling LDL the bad cholesterol? We still need LDL. Also, there is a subset of people that they're calling Lean Mass Hyper Responders. They do Low Carb/High Fat and lose weight, cut all their markers for CVD, except there LDL goes sky high.
They didn't talk about the difference between eating while walking, driving, working and actively sitting for a meal. Your brain needs to realize it's eaten and you don't need food, which is harder when you slam a donut in the middle of traffic
Don't think our ancestors had the luxury of eating slow when food is available. Overweight has MUCH more to do with how much and how often we eat than the rate of eating. If someone only has 1000 calories worth of food for the day, would it make any difference how fast someone ate it?
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There's another technic that I've been using to slow down eating. That's using a smaller spoon. So each mouthful is now smaller thereby ensuring more chewing and more mouthfuls overall.
I will try that.
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While I am not a fast eater (at least I am slower than anyone else I eat with) I will try that. Having a smaller plate worked in managing amounts, so why shouldn’t smaller utensils work with speed. I still have the sets my kids used when they were toddlers. That should be good. 😁
I have always been very thin, and I have always eaten slowly. One reason is that I take a bite of one item, then a differnt item, a sip of drink, etc. until I return to the first item. Other people at my table tend to eat all of one item, and then all of a different item, etc.
I have switched to a larger spoon to try to gain weight in order to reach the recommended BMI.
My stepfather used to grill us over dinner, looking for flaws or problems he could jump on to criticize. We were a clean your plate family, so the sooner I cleaned my plate, the sooner I could be excused and get away from the interrogation. I learned to eat far too fast and I have struggled with excess weight all of my life.
I expect the excess adrenaline and insulin triggered by chronic threat may have a larger impact. It is definitely known that childhood trauma affects rates of chronic disease.
Psychological then.
@@gsismaet5385 that doesnt make it any less important.
That's such a sad story on many levels.
That's so sad
ZOE should also mention and encourage the famous French style of eating where you have long meals with lots of conversation. It's likely this style causes slow eating and slow chewing and huge life enjoyment. The French are famous for being slim when they are eating in their traditional ways and from their traditional foods and drinks. It would be great if ZOE could do research and a video exploring this!
Easiest way of eating slow I’ve found is, after taking a bite - put the spoon or food down on the plate until I finish the bite completely. I think a lot of people have a habit of taking multiple bites at a time leading to poor breakdown and digestion
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@@caidendaniel24 don’t care
@@rishabh5750 i do
She mentioned that, "putting your cutlery down in between bites"
I’m going to try this..
I'm SO G-L-A-D I found this channel. You are hands down answering all the questions I ever had about food and nutrition. Thank you!
Thanks for this podcast and the information provided in it as regards the speed of eating.
In India, we know for generations from our ancestors that one should eat meals slowly and with taste.
Since centuries Indians ate food slowly for better health benefits. I would narrate a few true life experiences of empirical value.
Our ancestors advised to chew each bite '32 times' before swallowing. Why '32 times'? They linked it with 32 teeth we have in our mouth and they advised to chew 32 times to match the teeth number. This is just to put forward the idea that we must eat slowly.
Eating slowly as above really allowed food to get thoroughly mixed with our saliva which along with food eaten slowly will fill stomach slowly enough to help proper digestion, slow down rise of blood sugar, allow insulin to take care of glucose and get the feeling of fullness of stomach even after eating 20-25% less quantity of food.
Hence, food need to be hard enough for chewing more times and let the taste buds, flavour fully satisfy our brain to allow leptin hormone to be released from the brain to encourage us to put break to eating.
Dr. Bipin Deshpande, INDIA.
Indians have known everything, they know everything, and they will know everything. Except the fact that every society has known the benefit of slow eating intuitively
Can't agree more. Thank you for penning it
Thanks, Doc, I'll try that
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I tried that for a few days, but that much chewing reduces the food to "soup," and I found it to be unpleasant and a lot of work. Better to take very small bites to begin with, and chew fairly normally, which would mix the food just as well with smaller amount s of material.
I note that my rate of eating is strongly associated with my level of hunger. It might be that people that experience more hunger, eat faster and eat more. Interestingly, every farmer will tell you that animals who have to compete for food learn to eat quickly and those who are not in competition, eat much slower.
Much ‘more slowly’
with what effect to the animals??
Contrary to Sarah's theory, I'm much more likely to take a break for lunch since switching to working from home. Many workplaces have an "eat at your desk" culture. I was working in a factory building on an industrial estate by a busy road with nowhere nearby to go for a lunchbreak. Everyone just ate at their desk. Now I can take 20 or 30 minutes to sit in the lounge or garden and get away from the screen for a bit. Much more civilised!
For me, teleworking has helped my eating habits tremendously, including taking the time to sit at my table and eat a meal, at a slow pace, cooking home meals (simple and healthy ones), not eating as much processed food or restaurants, etc.
I was ‘trained’ to eat fast at school. We were told to eat very quickly. Also it was better to eat our food before some kid ate it or did something vile. I never had a weight problem or overeating disorder and I am the fastest eater in the East!! 😊So there is more to it.
Genetics, basal metabolic rate, type/content of food etc etc
So you watched this video just to discredit it and confuse people who need this advice? If you eat what you want and don't have weight problems, why are you here?
@@mst1740 I am not discrediting this video I am reporting my experience with fast eating. Also a previous video by Zoe actually stated that people who chewed food slowly consumed more calories than those who did not chew. I also do not eat anything I like. I now have a strict gluten free, lactose free diet with other adjustments but my weight remains the same regardless of diet or speed of eating! If I eat a big meal I eat smaller meals later because I am not so hungry. The problem with people who keep gaining weight is that after a large meal they eat more large meals! I do not eat biscuits or other carbs between meals. I also have 2 eggs for breakfast which being protein is way better than cereals with milk and sugar. Eggs are full of protein which staves off hunger.
@@themountain3461 also other factors including attitudes, availability of food, meaning of food, person's actual life story, events, can be trauma, situational factors. Eating disorders, disordered eating issues are often complex. Slowing down can help, but eating slowly can actually be a factor, symptom or a result of an eating disorder.
@@mst1740 because Zoe is a "science light" channel. You're better off getting proper nutrition advice, rather than focusing on a trivial aspect. Goes without saying that mindful eating is better than trying to wolf down as quickly as possible, but what you eat is more important
Just caught up with this. I was born early 50s and was taught to chew thoroughly. When I started working for the NHS, I had to eat quickly, just in case an emergency occurred. I have tried and tried but still seem not to be able to slow down, as if eating is a waste of my time. Like it said in one of my old school reports...Must try harder.
I was also born in the early 1950s. Whenever I visited my grandmother (born 1880s), she always told me at table to "chew it well". She in turn had been told by her her grandparents that Wellington was reputed to chew each mouthfull 100 times - which does sound super slow. Incidentally, it used to be just ordinary civilised table manners to put down your knife and fork between mouthfulls.
@@olddeuteranomaly5112 That was polite eating and had a lot to do with table manners, which somewhere along the line, got lost.
I worked in the Hotel industry all my life and we did not have much time for Lunch and Dinner as you can guess even after retirement this habit is still very much a life. I never had a problem with my weight until I hit 60. Started a sort of Keto diet when I was 74 years old and nearly hit my youth weight. Of course, cut sugar, alcohol and most carbs. did help Never had Diabetes or high Blood sugar and if you are older eat only twice a day is the key.
I eat quickly, mainly because my food would get cold! I'm not overweight.
I just looked at a typical day at a school where I live. From bell to bell for lunch there is 30 min. Considering that the students need to walk to the cafeteria, pick up their food, then eat it before the next bell rings, they probably have only 15 min to eat. In addition, at least one group went directly to physical education from lunch. I can imagine how those kids felt. 😢
Ugh.
sounds like shitty planning
My mother was famous for being the slowest eater and her weight was 7st or under 45K. Okay she was only 5ft but still!
Something I've noticed since stopping eating ultra processed food and preparing whole food is I no longer want to wolf food down. It takes time to prepare so I want to give it the respect my effort deserves!
We have known this in India for thousands of years. It’s something our parents told us frowning up.
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I remember our gym teacher at school in 1960 solemnly chewing and saying that "research shows that slower eating is good for you".
Granny said: Don't gobble. Chew your food well. Eat your greens. Don't snack - it'll spoil your dinner.
Hello Zoe, I couldn't figure out another way of reaching you. I want to suggest an episode regarding "food digestion/digestion issues". I do intermittent fasting and I always wonder about how many calories can be consumed at once, what difference does splitting the foods across several or lesser hours makes (if any), etcetera. Anyways, keep up the great content, cheers!!
Very interesting questions. I'm a faster too and would like those answers.
Can I just say that parents, particularly women, 60/70 years ago were super busy. Walked everywhere, cooked fresh, walked to different shops didn’t have cars. Walked the kids to school etc. being busy is not the reason people eat badly but supermarkets are !!!
Supermarket foods also contain high levels of upfs.
We had home deliveries of meat, milk and bread. My dad delivered oil to farms and brought home all the veg, mostly carrots, parsnips and potatoes. We didn’t use supermarkets much. Anything else came from the corner shop.
Some Taoist precepts. Eat in silence, pay attention to your food. Chew your food till it is liquid. Pay attention to your body as you swallow and digest your food. These will help you to gain more chi(energy) from your food. Also do not eat till you are full (only to 70%). Becoming over-satisfied with food will starve your spirit.
A liquid form of a chicken sandwich with mayo in my mouth was enough to make me stop eating that way. And my jaw muscles hurt, too. If I wanted soup I would fix soup.
Love the bite size podcasts but would really prefer more in depth longer ones more often.
Some people like to eat slow, some like to eat fast. I've always been ashamed of my fast eating and tried to put the brakes on in public, eating out and such, because people link it to gluttony. But I just don't enjoy my meal as much when I'm eating slowly, just the same as a slow eater hates being rushed.
In my case I don't eat more, when I'm finished I'm finished. But I do get more gassy!
You get more gassy because when you eat fast you swallow more air!!
Drinking calories (vs. eating them) tends to lead to weight gain.
One reason might be that gulping them down doesn't require chewing.
This was excellent, I think doing this slower eating will help me as even now I've retired I'm still in rush mode I used to eat between jobs, mindful eating from now on for me.
I'm a very fast eater but I don't go for seconds just because I finish first. And conversely, on the few occasions when I eat slowly because I'm talking to someone during a meal, I don't leave a small amount of food (equivalent to 60kcal) on my plate just because I'm technically not hungry anymore. If I get a plate with a normal portion size I usually eat all of it no matter how slow or fast. When I cook at home the decision of how much I eat is usually made at the time I start cooking or when I make my plate, not when I eat. That would just be wasteful. I can see how this might be different in the US where you get unreasonably large portion sizes in restaurants but other than that it seems to me that this might be more of a correlation rather than causation.
I ordered a kids meal portion at a burger place in US.
Agreed. I'm a skinny fast eater and I've met a few others the same. Most people I know eat more slowly than I, and most people are overweight.
Agree with those that state the USA serve portion sizes for up to three persons in some cases. When I'm visiting the US (from Australia) my sister and I generally order 2 or three entrees and share all. I eat slow when in company of others, however, I eat fast when on my own. I believe it's what you eat and the qty that contributes to obesity. I mentally by habit eat 1300-1500 calories a day and eating fast has no impact on my weight. When I intake the same calories and do more physical excercise I generally lose weight. How fast or slow I eat has no impact. Age 67, 120 lbs, 5'3. The majority of food I eat don't have labels. I will admit, eating slower makes me mindful of the flavours and textures of the food and I savour my favourites more.
@@madoladi when in Australia what's a staple food to order.
@@sharinaross1865 depends where you live. Australia is as big as US excluding Alaska. In WA Fish, beef and vegetables, again it depends where in Australia you live. Cheers
And in-top comment: found out that chewing slowly is the great way to feel fullness faster and to understand clearly what I like in my lunch and what I don’t. I had problems with this differentiation because of ED in past.
Perhaps you should visit Plum Village in France- where mindfulness in all endeavors are taught and encouraged, including, and especially Eating! Taste each bite of food as a practice...for one meal each day and see. Feel the texture of each mouthful and the flavors. I notice how much I have been gobbling down my Plant Based meals lately and I want to Slow Down!! Thanks! 🙏
Great example thanks for sharing...thich hach han❤
I always remember my great grandmother told us kids to chew each mouthful 15 times before swallowing and it always made a lot of sense to me. I notice that most people chew far fewer times than that, and have a "slower metabolism" (or whatever the PC way is of saying they have more fat tissue these days).
Apart from anything, chewing more times means I get to enjoy the taste of the food more. Since I'm not a supertaster, I have to try harder to appreciate the taste of food.
Interesting my grandmother always said something similar, and I’ve got a fast metabolism
Its partly because work places in the uk dont allow their workers enough time to eat,so they are forced to eat quickly. I think its attrocious how people are treated. In France everybody gets a proper lunch break,and workers are more productive.
What are we doing to ourselves,and why?
A similarly interesting, if not odd, research topic would be comparing health and weight of people who eat everything on their plates and people who stop eating when they’ve had enough, even if there is food left on the plate.
I have pretty good willpower but I don't think I could ever leave edible food on my plate.
Sounds like a lack of exercise, rather than eating speed. As an ultra-runner, I am practically forcing the food down to keep my speed up. Sugar? I practically mainline the stuff on 6 hour plus runs/cycling. Nothing like a bit of long duration exercise to break up metabolic issues.
I should add: I am in my late 50s, resting pulse about 50, blood pressure normal.
If we want to play the "eat like our ancestors" game, both hunting and gathering takes quite a bit of time and energy. While there may have been a brief period at the end of the last Ice Age when herbivorous mammals multiplied on the newly spread grasslands, that was merely a historical blip. For most of human evolution, getting food involved a lot of movement and work. The odd "chief" may have been fat and lazy, getting others to do the manual labour of actually catching/finding food, but for most of the population exercise was compulsory to avoid starvation.
So rather than "eat less" or "eat slower", the conversation should start with "exercise more" and THEN build on that with food etc.
While the phrase "you cannot outrun a bad diet" has some currency, once one's exercise gets beyond a certain level and duration, one is often so wiped out that one has to remember to actually eat.😂
Got no time? Add up your "leisure screen time" (TV, RUclips, social media). Divide by 2. Hmm. Seems that many folks have plenty of time for more exercise - but they choose not to. And will grasp at any straw and buy any apparent "wonder method" or "wonder pill" to avoid the simple answer - less screen time, more moving time.
So stop watching videos on "hacks" to lose weight, and use the time saved to move about more. Simples.
I've been a fast eater for all of my 76 years and my weight never varies unless I'm very ill in which case I drop and it takes a while to recoup. This doesn't happen often as I'm very fit and healthy. I think today, families have left the table so to speak, eating in front of tv, computer etc or on the run between events. Processed food is easier to eat so this could be a reason and it's usually full of sugars. I've continued to sit at a table to eat and my diet doesn't vary much and is considered healthy. In recent times I have developed a slow motility oesophagus, age related I'm told. I now eat slower (oh so hard after so long) and wonder if my recent weight loss or extra exercise is the reason. All my blood results and blood pressure are perfect. I certainly have no wish to lose more weight and don't want to eat fast again due to the pain it causes. Hmm, I will need to do some research I think.
If weight loss becomes a problem, drinking more of your calories can make up for solids that you cannot eat enough of. Nutritional drinks have about 250 calories each, so two a day would help you maintain your weight. You could also make those at home with fresh fruit, fruit juices, milk/yoghurt, nuts, etc. in a blender.
Sorry for the off-top comment but could you please say, what pronunciation is Jonathan’s - British or American?
I’m an English teacher from Russia and I found Zoe’s pronunciation pretty British.
But what about Jonathan?
1:10: 🍽 Eating rate has an impact on our health, including weight and appetite.
4:34: 🍽 Eating quickly is associated with excess body weight and various health risks.
8:42: 🍽 Eating slowly may have benefits such as lower glucose response, weight loss, and feeling more full.
11:00: 🍽 Eating mindfully and considering the texture of food can impact our eating habits and health.
14:41: 🍽 Eating speed and food texture are important factors in our dietary habits and can impact our health.
18:41: 🥦 Eating fiber-rich foods can improve long-term health and potentially increase lifespan, but they are less palatable and require more chewing compared to ultra-processed foods.
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It would be very interesting to investigate what happens when one group eats with their eyes closed vs eyes open, vs bombed by social media behind a laptop.
I know I eat too quickly, so 2 years ago I started eating with chopsticks. Sounds silly, but it works for me. Still working on being aware of chewing my food more. I am WFPD and OMAD.
I'm so skinny that I can only lift 15 pounds.
I normally don't like interviews but this one is incredibly clean. 👍
I always put down my cutlery between most mouthfuls, I eat slowly and chew lots, much more so now since stomach surgery but I have always been that way and have always been a thin person. Al really good information which most of us should take on board as its never too late to change.
I'd hate watching you eat or be around people who don't enjoy their food
@@Dosadniste2000 Oh but I love my food, you must be kidding I am part Italian and I make everything in house including bread, yoghurt, marmalade, Jams and preserves and also pasta without a machine. So you got the wrong end of the stick there, I just eat sensibly without the shovel technique.
@@artycrafty9209 How very Italian of you to make your own yoghurt 😄
Jokes aside, people who do that seem to me to have some eating , chewing swallowing problem
I want to put down the shovel & eat slower 👏 I try to think…are you 80% full & stop.
@@Dosadniste2000 Seems like you have the problem mate, your hatred and sarcasm for anyone who is not in your group is loud and clear. Why you bothered to listen to this video I dont know as everything in it you seem to hold in contempt? and why your started bashing at me for no reason is weird, still we know the internet is full of keyboard warriors.
I have never experienced anyone eating slower than I do. I have always been slim, almost always at my perfect body weight. However, because everyone eats faster than I do, and we know that I'm not the only thin person on the earth, I can say there are many thin people who eat fast. I personally know many sen this people who eat very fast, and some overweight people who eat quite slowly.
So I wonder what you mean by a slow eater. What is the metric?
I do like that the guest points out that Eating Rate does not only impact the size or shape of the body, but also other aspects of metabolic health.
And I love that the host explained the idea of randomized trials to help isolate and pinpoint what's really going on.
I proved it a long time ago: it is impossible to overeat when I eat slowly.
Interesting topic but the content turned out to be a little disappointing for me. I know one counter example doesn't invalidate the stats, but I've always been a very fast eater and am thin with very low body fat and am at the low end of the generally accepted healthy range range for my weight. Eating slower to lose weight doesn't really help me as I would like to put on weight. Having said all that, I eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables and hardly any junk food (which for me includes cakes, biscuits, puddings, sugary things, etc). Wrt covid, if anything, I eat more slowly now than pre-covid. However, I have had some problems with digestion over the last 3 years and would have liked to see more content about how the pace of eating impacts one's digestion.
It turns out, the practice of eating six times a day will increase weight gain. Maybe a healthier way to gain is exercising before meals.
What should someone do who needs to put ON weight? If they eat slower, will they consume less calories and get even thinner?
What's crazy is that me being skinny is my status and I am so weak now that I can only jog for a minute. I can lift 15 pounds and 10 pounds. My arms are small
and I am to skinny to be athletic.
I don’t like eating cold food though which is what happens if you eat more slowly😣
Same here that’s probably why I eat faster than I’d like to plus my dads a fast eater too.
@@LoveJoyPeace4Life my house is very cold in winter so…don’t we tend to do things the way our parents brought us up to? Strangely reading or something means I put my fork down between mouthfuls anyway but eating so slow a nice curry goes to waste is not my idea of a ‘fun way to lose weight’😝
We bought microwave plate warmers from Lakeland. I eat slowly naturally, but like my food hot so they have been a godsend.
Jesus saves ❤
@@deborahnottingham5988 So use a plate that has a warmer in the bottom. They make them. Or, take a break at some point and reheat the food. Or, take only as much as will stay warm, and leave the rest in the pan on a warm hot plate. In a restaurant, take the cold leftovers home in a doggy bag.
What about the mechanical effects of fast (over)eating? Doesn't a quickly stuffed belly also make the belly muscles give in and sag and thus exacerbate the big belly look?
The problem for a lot of us slow eaters is that lunchtimes have been reduced in many professionals from 1 hour to half an hour. I can't eat my lunch in half an hour slowly I have had to start wolfing down my food so I am back on department in time.
An Oxford university study found swapping cutlery hands slows eating down
It’s surprising they needed a study to work that out😊
@@meherenow I think they found it one of the best ways to slow down eating along with as suggested putting down your cutlery
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This doesn't add up. I eat fast but I'm not overweight. I do have digestive issues but if anything I struggle to keep weight on. I have low blood pressure, low cholesterol and a normal blood sugar range. 🤔
I just started paying attention to how fast I eat . When I eat fast I can eat a full plate of spaghetti and meatballs no problem along with bread. But about 1/2 hr latter my belly would feel like it was going to explode because of how super full I was. Here’s what I found just by eating a smaller portion slower. It takes about 20 minutes for my brain to catch up with the food in my stomach. So I’ve been retraining myself to wait at least 20 minutes after have a smaller meal to see if I’m actually still hungry. Most of the time I’m not. I have 25+ lbs to loose. Been losing about 2lbs a week just by eating smaller portions slowly.
Should we wait to drink water at the end of the meal rather than during? i know people who do this and have said it's better for overall digestion, wasn't sure how true it was.
Great to have a new podcast, but what happened to the HRT podcast? I received it in the newsletter, but my hearing is not that great, so I always wait for it to be posted on here, so I can watch it with subtitles.
Assuming people have been on their hols as this took time to appear as well plus their annual meeting is soon so guessing lots of prep going on. Sure it will appear.
@@1annetteg Thanks, I hope so, but the HRT came before this one, so I would expect that first....
@@AlanBoulter Thanks I know, but the HRT podcast isn't on RUclips yet, so right it can only be listened to on other platforms, so no subtitles...
@@AlanBoulter she was looking for a different podcast on Menopause to be shown here so she could view with subtitles. All are available on audio but now here with videos currently.
@@floatingisland544 good point but maybe working backward. I look for them here every Monday too as so informative & helpful.
I think its also “training” I have a very good diet and I neither crave nor enjoy HP or sugary foods. I notice friends are really “addicted” to HP and sugary food and don’t want to really try it and do not persist with a healthy diet….but are not happy with their eating/weight/health
The way I stopped wolfing down food is to eat foods that self-regulate their pace: juicy fruit and raw meat.
I thought Sarah stumbled across a very obvious way to slow down: She mentioned when out with friends and engaged in conversation ...... If we are in social settings more often, that will slow down the intake. If we eat alone, or when in a hurry to get somewhere, it will be the opposite.
I definitely eat more slowly when I’m with other people and that usually leads to me leaving something on my plate as I register getting full.
Drinking water even fills your stomache, increasing the fullness sensation. Plus, dehydration feels like hunger a lot of the time
Oh dear. I am condemned. Describing me too well. Going to try this weird slow thing now.
I try to use chopsticks to eat , it really slows you down as you can only eat small mouthfuls at a time!
Actually eating too fast is an indicator of low levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine. The faster someone eats while not consciously determining the speed one is eating, the lower their dopamine levels are. In fact there are similar indicators for serotonin & noradrenaline levels too. Serotonin levels are inversely related to social anxiety levels, while noradrenaline is inversely related to sustained erections. Of course other things influence these things too.
I find reading a book while I eat can really slow me down. A good engrossing book of course!
I agree, but it is a distraction that can make you miss out on tasting and smelling your food. For normal weight folks, may not be an issue, but mindful eating can help us enjoy the food more. I used to always read a book at the table, but I found that I also used to eat a snack while reading on my bed as a teenager.
Being in the middle of the Zoe test programme (see my recent videos) I’m slowly trying food that are better suited to me …. The trouble is I let myself get too hungry before meals and forget to slow my eating down. Perhaps I need more healthy snacks to hand…
Some good points but i wonder if the quantitative easing could trigger or even begin some ocd repetitive and quantitative behaviours.
Here it is said you should chew 40 times
If I eat slow, I get less GERD issue
My daughter was the slowest eater ever and by the time she was 29, she was borderline morbidly obese. I taught my kids good nutrition, daily exercise, how to cook from scratch and to avoid junk food. One is obese on nutritious food, the other is obese and a junk food junkie. The third runs marathons and is model thin and in the past was bulimic. They all eat at relatively the same rate.
They might eat at a different speed when they are alone Tho. A lot of people will eat differently around others than they do when they are alone
Marathon runners are burning off all their calories. How much is eaten at one meal counts, as does what is eaten each meal.
I always eat the amount of food I put on my plate, usually a balanced meal.
Does eating faster or slower the same amount of food make any difference?
This report would indicate that is the case.
When my girls were young and we had horses we used to inhale our food we were so hungry from all the manual work. No weight issues. Horses for courses one might say.
Nowadays I'm a slow eater with no weight issues.
I put my dog on a sectioned bowl to slow down his eating. He has much less digestive problems since I did this. He use to throw up and have diarrhea, but no more.
Interesting programme. Seems obvious that eating slowly helps digestion for humans.
I do eat quickly, the biggest reason being I have a very strong preference for hot food. And I hate how mushy food gets from all that chewing. Anyone have experience of this and how to change?
today I enjoyed a 3 hr lunch with international friends who haven't been able to meet because of covid = true indulgence and so so satirizing
Keen to know what ZZOE thinks of Huel, will that ever be a thing covered here?
Interesting. I eat slowly, i take up to an hour to eat a large meal.
I dont believe a word of this. So she is saying if you wolf down a meal of a known calorific quantity and another person sips the same exact meal, the wolf down person will end up fatter? I dont think so.
In most households where they cook their own meal, each meal is of a fixed quantity, you either make too much and eat all of it anyway or dont finish it and throw it/save it for another day. It is very unlikely that if you wolf down that meal, one would get up and make more. I dont believe eating speed for the exact meal makes any difference it is how much you eat that makes a difference.
So the other place where eating fast can make you gain weight is in those unlimited buffet restaurants, you eat and eat until you cant walk. I find you can eat a lot more of you eat slowly in one of these places. Then have a rest and seat some more, obviously to get your moneys worth 🤣🤣😊😊
My primary school child is constantly encouraged to eat gas at school or he will miss his meal or he rushing to hit the playground
When you eat slowly your food gets cold, then it isn't enjoyable, so maybe that makes you leave some. Is that perhaps the aim?
Fascinating
Why is this podcast called ZOE? If it's named after (or in honour of) Dr Zoe Harcombe, then this should be mentioned. It would also be good manners (and respectful) to check with her if she minds this, given that many of the opinions voiced in this channel's various podcasts are antithetical to hers.
At one point in my life I used the technique of cutting my food in to itty bitty bites. I lost 30 lbs eating that way. I ate the same foods, but each one got the "treatment" after seasoning. I just started this technique again today, and I did it with an egg salad sandwich with half a banana. I filled the plate with all the little pieces. What I am noticing is that we actually get more pleasure from this method, because we get to taste the food more times. If normally we taste it 20 times, and small bites make us taste it 40-50 times, isn't that more enjoyable? I think our brains register that we are eating more because we are tasting more. Just a theory. And sips of water every few bites helps fill us up, too. Smaller plates, smaller forks/spoons (how about eating a dish of ice cream with a stir stick?) could help. Just know that you can have more food if you are still hungry, so you don't feel like you are starving yourself. But treat each plate the same way, and you have little choice but to slow down and taste everything more.
Eat everything with chop sticks, without picking up your plate or bowl 8o)
I am trying to eat slower but can't bear the thought of food in my mouth. I also eat fast subconsciously and keep thinking I don't have any time to lose.
One hack I find is to keep a coin (after washing it of course) in your mouth when you eat. It forces you to actually think before you swallow.
The rate of eating seems genetically determined and is a trait that probably at times gave out ancestors an evolutionary advantage. Sadly that has now come back to bite us now that we have an abundance of food and the advent of UPF.
Eat real food.
Slow down.
Some useful tips here.
Avoid soft food.
Make your own sourdough not shop bought bread.
Try telling this to my neighbor's dog.
A meal from a hundred years ago would have been plants, lentils and beans? I don't think there's much evidence for that.
Or even, in the spirit of taking care with things, 'eating too quickly'...?
Don't give into the work constantly ethos. Take your lunch break away from your work so you can eat slower and have some mental time away from your job during the day. Sit down with your family and eat together. We need to slow down our pace of life instead of being in a constant tizzy of work, work, work. F*$! your job. It isn't worth taking years off your life or having a stroke from the stress and poor lifestyle habits for optimal output.
Eat to portion, and eating slowly means carbs on the teeth for longer.
We must also feel better in the gut and get more nutrition if we eat slowly and chew more!
Where is the evidence that slowing down a fast eater actually results in weight control? The assumption in this video is that if you eat more slowly you feel full faster which may well be the case. However, what is the result if the caloric intake is the same and only the eating speed changes.
Then there's eating cold food.
Good luck trying to eat the same # of calories when you eat slowly though. I just suffered a mouth sore and I found I ate half the amount. I liked it so much that after I recovered I deliberately cut my mouth with a box cutter.
Interesting, my Grandmother always said to chew each mouthful of food 20 times - I guess traditional wisdom wins out
I have bones showing on my chest after I exercise for a month.
Eating fast requires more oxygen to digest food. Therefore it is not good as far as aging. Our body gets worn out especially the stomach!!
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We really need to stop calling LDL the bad cholesterol!
@SamShank175 HDLs are the good cholesterol. LDLs deposit plaque as a result of inflammation caused by sugar and carbs. Cut carbs and your LDLs will be reduced, whilst increasing your HDLs.
@@warrenbridges1891 what does that have to do with calling LDL the bad cholesterol? We still need LDL. Also, there is a subset of people that they're calling Lean Mass Hyper Responders. They do Low Carb/High Fat and lose weight, cut all their markers for CVD, except there LDL goes sky high.
They didn't talk about the difference between eating while walking, driving, working and actively sitting for a meal. Your brain needs to realize it's eaten and you don't need food, which is harder when you slam a donut in the middle of traffic
No, I never time my eating. Rather, I eat until I am full. Timing your eating is pure non-sense. Eating real food should be emphasized here.
Don't think our ancestors had the luxury of eating slow when food is available. Overweight has MUCH more to do with how much and how often we eat than the rate of eating. If someone only has 1000 calories worth of food for the day, would it make any difference how fast someone ate it?
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How can you eat a cold steak? 😣
Very slowly...
i eat 2 mouth full of food and i set a timer for 3 mins and repeat till i finish my food
Studies like this are performed by people who have nothing better to do. Just eat your food and be glad of it.
Trying to teach my grandson to chew at least 20x, that's somewhat achievable ;)
I have always eaten fast don't know why