Hello dear readers.
Do you know that there is a very simple technique healing, which cures many diseases, especially diseases gastrointestinal tract. , duodenitis, diseases of the gallbladder, pancreas are difficult to cure without the use of this method.
So, get acquainted - therapeutic chewing.
The essence of this technique is so simple that you might be surprised that it can cure diseases. But do not rush to conclusions, read the article and try it. You will quickly feel the beneficial effects of therapeutic chewing.
Of course, if you have a disease, for example, gastritis, already running, you cannot defeat it with one method, I already wrote about this in an article. But without chewing your food thoroughly, you won't be able to fully recover.
In today's world, people have forgotten how to do it right. Eating on the run, overeating, drinking leads to obesity and the development of chronic diseases of all organs and systems. To maintain excellent health and remove toxins, they will be used often. The combination of the method of proper chewing of products with one of the methods contributes to the prevention of diseases and the fastest getting rid of many diseases. Let's talk about how to chew food properly.
An excursion into the history of the emergence of the technique
The founder of the method of proper chewing of food is the American physiologist Horace Fletcher. After 40 years, his health cracked, diseases occurred one after another, worsening his general condition and reducing his ability to work. He was diagnosed with a "bouquet" of ailments from the digestive, cardiovascular and endocrine systems, and psychological problems arose. A sharp deterioration in health led to the refusal of insurance companies to pay medical insurance for long courses of therapy.
Despite the difficult streak in life, Fletcher did not become depressed, but tried to find the roots of his problems. He came to the conclusion that the deterioration of health arose due to proper nutrition- snacks on the go, violation of the daily regimen, a quick meal while watching the press and television programs. Thanks to his knowledge in physiology, the doctor described in detail the causes of ailments with malnutrition. Based on scientifically based conclusions, he created effective methodology therapeutic chewing, which is called fletcherism.
Briefly about the process of digestion
According to the physiology of digestion, food begins to be digested already in the oral cavity. Food contains essential nutrients that are essential for the life of the body. These are proteins, carbohydrates and fats. For absorption in the digestive tract, nutrients must be broken down into smaller particles that can enter the bloodstream. In this condition they are delivered transport system blood circulation (special proteins) to cells and tissues.
Food components are broken down by the digestive juices of the mouth, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, and liver. They contain enzymes that break down large nutrient molecules into smaller particles. Carbohydrates begin to break down already in the oral cavity, and then in the duodenum 12. Thus, the body prepares them for further digestion in the digestive tract. Proteins and fats are broken down mainly in the stomach and small intestine. For proper digestion, food must be mechanically crushed by teeth, chemically treated with saliva. And the more the better.
The essence of the method of therapeutic chewing
The method of therapeutic nutrition is based on the physiology of digestion and is aimed at maintaining the health of all organs and systems. Fletcher proved that chewing one portion of food in the oral cavity should account for at least 30 chewing movements, ideally about 100. As a result, the food lump is completely saturated with saliva, softens, liquefies and enters the esophagus without swallowing movements, as if sliding down the throat and without spasms moves along the esophagus. This phenomenon has been called the "Fletcher food probe".
Of course, you don't have to go to the point where food passes without being swallowed, but remember, the more you chew, the better.
The technique of chewing food thoroughly was known in oriental medicine. It was actively used by yogis. Thanks to the right way eating, they were satisfied with a small amount of food, healed physical and spiritual ailments, life expectancy was at least 100 years. With a small amount of food consumption, yogis maintained a cheerful state during the day, and maintained a healthy sleep at night.
There is another aspect here.
The fact is that when we chew slowly and focus only on food (we don’t get distracted, we don’t talk, but we feel the food, its taste), we energetically interact with it. All this leads to the fact that we take more nutrients from food, energetically and physically saturate faster. We now need less food.
The digestive organs become healthier and stronger.
Yogis knew about all this. No wonder there is a legend that the stomach of a yogi is able to digest even Rusty Nail. There is a deal of truth in it.
Have you noticed that when someone cooks food, tastes it, they get satiated faster? And he no longer wants to sit down and eat with everyone. He just energetically interacted with food. Draw your own conclusions.
How to chew food should be known to every person who wants to keep a good physical form throughout life. Here are the main principles of the healing technique:
- do not fill your mouth with food, it is necessary to place food in the oral cavity in small portions, filling it halfway;
- chew food slowly - the number of minimum chewing movements can, for example, be calculated by the formula: one movement for an existing tooth, three for a missing or diseased tooth. For example: if you have 32 healthy teeth, then chew food 32 times, you can increase the number of jaw movements by 2-5 times. But that's about all. Main principle- the bigger, the better;
- while eating, try to achieve maximum contact of the food bolus with the tongue, which has a large number of receptors. This allows you to activate the work of the digestive glands through nerve impulses to the central nervous system;
- eating should take place in a calm environment, provided there is no irritability and anger. Negative emotions disrupt the process of splitting food;
- the meal should not be accompanied by other activities (reading, talking, watching TV), while eating, you need to concentrate on the taste of dishes, smells, the process of chewing and saturation. Those. energetically interact with food.
Fletcher suggested a 5-week course of the technique, during which a person uses therapeutic chewing at each meal. During this period, a healthy way of eating is fixed at the reflex level and then maintained for a long time. With the extinction of skills, the course can be repeated.
Scheme of a 5 week course of healing chewing:
- The first week - each serving of food in the mouth is crushed for 1 minute.
- Second week - 2 minutes.
- Third week - 3 minutes.
- Fourth week - 2 minutes.
- Fifth week - 1 minute.
The technique must be used at every meal, otherwise the effect will be reduced to zero. In this case, all Fletcher's recommendations should be followed.
Of course, in the modern world with a frantic pace of life, it is difficult to constantly adhere to the recommendations for long chewing. Do then, at least periodically, such courses, and during breaks try to chew based on the availability of free time. When you feel beneficial changes and learn to eat with energy benefits, you will enjoy chewing thoroughly, and you will no longer want to stupidly quickly swallow food, like animal.
Benefits of therapeutic chewing
Positive changes in the body are noticeable after the first course of application of the technique. The attitude towards food is radically changing - a person enjoys dishes, enjoys a meal, gains strength, emotional upsurge, feels true happiness.
The positive impact of the Fletcher method on health:
- the effect of separate nutrition without difficulties in compiling a diet - nutrients are split sequentially during slow chewing;
- a decrease in the volume of food consumed by 2-5 times - proper chewing contributes to the normalization of the satiety center in the brain, which prevents malnutrition and obesity;
- a set of natural body weight. Fat people lose weight, thin people gain weight;
- small energy costs for the digestion of a small volume of products - the energy goes to recovery and health processes in organism;
- improvement of the work of digestion and other body systems - nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, urinary, sexual;
- getting rid of many diseases;
- maintaining the correct biorhythms - active daytime wakefulness, calm and uninterrupted sleep at night;
- maintaining Have a good mood and emotional states.
Now you know how to chew food properly. Use the technique at every meal and enjoy good health, good mood, good performance. To enhance the healing effect, combine proper chewing with or wet (with water) fasting.
And then you will be healthy and happy! What do you want!
I suggest watching an interesting video about therapeutic chewing:
Sincerely, Sergey Tigrov
In principle, everyone knows how to lose weight: eat less, move more - there are no special secrets.
But alas, despite the seeming simplicity of such advice, a huge number of people on earth suffer from excess weight - only I think that in 2018, 774 million people around the globe suffer from obesity!
This once again proves that head-on fighting is not a strategy for everyone. In fact, weight loss is full of hidden life hacks that will help you lose weight "imperceptibly" - without special efforts will and other suffering.
Let's get acquainted with one of them - flatcherism in the studio!
What is this
As the wonderful and far-sighted Ilf and Petrov once wrote: “by chewing food thoroughly, you help society.” It all sounds, of course, not solid, but do not rush to scroll through this method of losing weight - all of a sudden, it will suit you and make a revolution in your weight loss?
Scientifically, this method is called fletcherism, named after its creator and ideological inspirer American Horace Fletcher. He urged everyone to chew each swallowed piece 32 times (the original number of teeth), and subsequently raised the bar to 100 times.
He was a rather fanatical person, they say that he even “chews” water. According to Fletcher, food, chewed almost to the state of liquid, facilitates the work of the gastrointestinal tract, contributing to recovery and weight loss.
One can argue with the ethics of this statement - in fact, it’s not superfluous to experience food well, but if you don’t do this, then nothing will get stuck in your intestines and will not rot - our gastrointestinal tract can quite cope with this “problem”.
But it is also worth knowing that by eating according to this method, Fletcher lost 29 kg! Fletcher conducted many experiments to prove high efficiency method he created.
For example, at the American military academy at West Point, he brought together two groups of people. One of them included cadets with a deficit of weight, the other - with an excess. They received the same food and chewed it according to the Fletcher method. As a result, it’s a miracle, the full ones lost weight, the thin ones gained weight!
In addition, the “great chewer”, as his contemporaries called him, was clearly also a charismatic person, since at the beginning of the last century he was very popular and managed to involve the writer Mark Twain and even the billionaire John Rockefeller into his ranks!
The method of therapeutic chewing in our country is promoted by the Altai general practitioner Sergey Filonov, who, with a height of 176 cm, weighs 68 kg.! Filonov took as an example the motto from Indian yogis: "Eat liquid food, drink solid food." That is, even juices, milk or tea must be chewed, mixed with saliva. And solid food needs to be chewed longer than usual so that it turns into liquid.
In fact, there is a lot of rational grain in these arguments. A person of the 21st century, even if he avoids fast food, still eats extremely fast! Watch your colleagues in the dining room: a three-course meal takes 10-12 minutes on average for most people to eat, although they should stretch out the meal by 20-40 minutes.
Usually, a person makes 10-15 chewing movements for each piece of food that he puts in his mouth, and it turns out that he swallows the food like a hungry boa constrictor, so that later he can crawl away to a quiet place and digest it all.
Alas, such a habit of eating quickly, almost without chewing, is formed in childhood. Remember how your parents fed you, as a child, from a spoon, not allowing you to chew the previous one well, or they stuffed unloved food into you in the style of “just put it in your mouth and swallow it without chewing, and for that I will give you candy.”
Or, for example, like you, in order to quickly go for a walk on the street, you yourself tried to quickly deal with dinner. At school, during recess, I also wanted to play more than pay attention to food, so they then chewed it under the desk so that the teacher would not scold ... Oh, something felt sad, but oh well.
We do not believe that long chewing will make you healthy and give you longevity, as some adherents of Fletcherism think, but there are 100% benefits from it, especially in terms of losing weight and establishing a normal relationship with food.
The thing is that our appetite is controlled by hormones and the stomach itself, or rather stretch receptors. Of course, it takes some time to analyze the situation and the level of satiety, so the longer you eat, the more likely you are to eat less by the time your hormones and stomach say “enough”.
An interesting study by scientists from the University of Kyushu (Japan) was published in the journal BMJ Open. The researchers analyzed data from nearly 60,000 Japanese residents who had regular medical checkups between 2008 and 2013.
All of these people were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and doctors monitored changes in their health, including weight fluctuations. Participants in the study, in addition to other information about their lifestyle and eating habits, also reported how fast they used to eat.
More than 22 thousand people reported that they prefer not to stay at the table and eat very quickly, and about 4 thousand people, on the contrary, turned out to be slow eaters. The rest of the participants reported that they were accustomed to eating with normal, average speed.
The analysis showed that there is a direct relationship between the habitual rate of food absorption and the tendency to obesity - how faster man eats, the higher the risk of gaining excess weight. Compared to fast eaters, people with normal eating rates had a 29% lower risk of becoming obese, while slow eaters had a 42% lower risk.
Calculations have shown that, on average, such an indicator as waist circumference is less for normal and slow eaters than for fast eaters, by 21 and 41 centimeters, respectively.
According to the authors of the study, with the rapid absorption of food, the brain simply does not have time to process information about the onset of saturation, so there is regular overeating and weight gain. With slow eating, a feeling of satiety occurs even before excess food has entered the digestive tract and, accordingly, overeating does not occur.
In short, we personally think that this will be a useful practice for 99% of modern people, even those who are not going to lose weight. Due to the constant rush, we swallow food like boas, not always even having time to understand whether it is tasty for us at all.
Scheme
It takes about 5 weeks to learn to chew slowly. It is necessary to act according to a very simple scheme. We chew each spoonful of food:
- 1 Week- 1 minute
- 2 - 2 minutes,
- 3 week- 3 minutes,
- 4 - 2 minutes,
- 5 week- 1 minute.
As a result, a conditioned reflex is formed for a long (30-40 seconds) chewing of food and a large portion of food will no longer fit into you, you will be satisfied with a completely smaller amount.
Eat in silence: without being distracted by TV, gadgets, books and conversations. It is important to think about food, inhale its aroma, feel the taste, savor every bite. How do you say: when you walk, walk. When you eat, eat.
Eat with a teaspoon: so it will be easier to lengthen the time of the meal!
Sit down at the table only when you are really hungry..
Reduce plate size. Yes, it sounds naive, but our brain really works in a very bizarre way. And even things as simple as reducing the size of plates really work and work very well.
Therefore, while halving (and then halving, if necessary) the usual portions, simultaneously reduce the plates so that the ratio of plates and food remains the same. And the brain is “deceived” by such things.
The first point is simply incredibly important not only for losing weight, but in general for your psychological comfort! Conscious nutrition, consumption of food with a concentration on it, on its form, color, smell, taste - all this is one of the most useful and simple forms meditation that will help you improve your life in principle.
In general, any activity that we do gives us the opportunity to improve concentration, calm the running of thoughts in our heads, and calm irritated nerves. And if it is also good for our waistline, why not start eating mindfully?
How does the process of eating usually proceed? In most cases, our attention slips away after a couple of spoons, consuming which, we make sure that everything is in order with food. We are used to eating without thinking.
The next time you sit down at the table, try to look at the food before each bite - smell it, enjoy the color. Put in your mouth and taste the texture, flavors. Chew and concentrate on the taste, but whether you like it.
Swallow food and evaluate your condition: how well you feel, whether you are satisfied with the meal, whether you are overcome by any obsessive thoughts. All this sounds a little sectarian, we agree, but believe me, it unloads the head and stomach just fine.
The founder of this method was the American Horatio Fletcher. In search of a way to improve and lose weight, he shoveled a mountain of scientific literature. Including works on digestion by the Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov, who received the Nobel Prize for research in this area.
Fletcher formula
As a result, Fletcher derived his formula healthy eating: each piece of food should be chewed 32 times (the original number of teeth) and even more. Eating in this way, Fletcher lost 29 kg: in order to get enough, he now needed much less food.
At the beginning of the last century, the "great chewer", as his contemporaries called him, was very popular and managed to involve the writer Mark Twain and billionaire John Rockefeller into their ranks. Fletcher conducted many experiments to prove the effectiveness of the method. For example, at the military academy at West Point, he assembled two teams. One included overly thin cadets, the other - obese officers. They received the same food and chewed it according to the Fletcher method. As a result, the full ones lost weight, the thin ones gained weight!
Yogis have a motto: "Eat liquid food, drink solid food." They chew each piece up to 100 times and are literally saturated with a pinch of rice. No one has seen an obese yogi!
Basic principles of therapeutic chewing
The method of therapeutic chewing in our country is promoted by the Altai general practitioner Sergey Filonov. He is convinced that, having mastered it, each person can not only lose weight without diets, but also improve their health.
Once I ordered Filonov in a restaurant, which was served with tiny spoon. The meal was stretched out, because you can’t eat quickly with a “toy” device. When Julien was finished, the doctor felt that he had eaten. But the portion was no more than 100 g! First, the doctor tried therapeutic chewing on himself, and then began to recommend it to his patients.
As a result, without diets and special efforts, people got rid of 25–30 kg per year! To everyone who wants to lose weight, Dr. Filonov tirelessly reminds: at the meal you should not be distracted by talking, reading or watching TV. Yes, yes, the rule “When I eat, I am deaf and dumb” has been known to us since childhood, but for some reason we neglect it.
But the fact is that while eating, the receptors of the tongue and palate send certain impulses to the nervous system. They tell the body information about food so that it can get the most out of it and normalize the digestion process. If we are distracted by something else, this does not happen, so the ideal meal should be akin to meditation.
Slow food vs fast food system
Fast food is the collective name for any "junk" food: chips, snacks, hot dogs. But in the literal sense, fast food means “fast food”. And even those who do not have it in their diet still often eat too fast! Watch your colleagues in the dining room: with three dishes, most dealt with in 10-12 minutes! Although it would be more correct to stretch the meal for 40 minutes. It is no coincidence that the lunch break lasts about 1 hour.
The one who eats slowly becomes a gourmet and refuses "junk" food.
The point is this. The composition of industrial and fast food dishes is designed in such a way that the receptors “reveal” their taste literally in the first 3 “chews”. If you keep such food in your mouth for a long time, it will seem tasteless! And the taste of natural products, on the contrary, becomes only brighter.
Advantages of Fletcherism
➤ normalizes bowel function;
➤ improves the condition of the liver;
➤ improves metabolism;
➤ gums are strengthened, and teeth receive additional protection against caries (saliva released during chewing neutralizes acid and sugar from food).One more reason: chewing food thoroughly, we save a lot - now you need to buy 2 times less food!
It is useful to chew long and thoroughly.
Let's find out: how and why thoroughly chewing food has a positive effect on our health?
The article determines the required number of chewing movements to gain health and longevity.
Who chews longer, lives longer (proverb). Is it really so?
We will get acquainted with the founders and followers of the method of therapeutic chewing, get interesting information about how to lose weight with just a thorough chewing of food, and in general, thanks to the information received, we will become one step closer to a healthy lifestyle.
Chinese sages said:
“If you chew 50 times before swallowing, you will not get sick, 100 times you will live a very long time, 150 times you will become immortal.”
Also, perhaps some of us have heard or read about how yogis are scrupulous about eating:
"Solid food must be drunk, and liquid food must be eaten."
Friends, these are really wise sayings that have a lot of meaning. Let's reveal for ourselves the secret of therapeutic chewing. By the way, which is important, this easy and effective chewing trick for health is available to everyone. As they say, everything ingenious is simple.?
Agree, in our life the process of eating takes one of the leading positions. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, various snacks and even night trips to the refrigerator - we eat a lot and often, this is a natural human biological need.
So, what am I for? No one can argue with the fact that it will be just wonderful if each meal gives us much more energy and health than we usually get.
And it's possible! I emphasize - we can get additional energy and health almost for nothing, which, unfortunately, recently most people have less and less (for many reasons), and, alas, in most cases you can’t buy them for money.
➡️ But there is always a solution! We can use this free and healthy way of chewing, which, if turned into a habit, will give a great bonus to our body in the form of excellent health and even longevity.
So, more to the point. Scientists have proven: the more carefully we cut food, the better and more efficiently the process of digestion occurs.
Digestion does not begin in the stomach, as many believe, but already in the mouth at the first contact of food with saliva.
Each piece, which is chewed long and hard, is more useful than several of the same pieces, swallowed at our usual high-speed pace.
If you chew for a long time, the body will thank us with excellent digestion, because the subsequent digestion of food is faster and better, which, accordingly, guarantees the entry of nutrients into the blood in much larger quantities.
In addition, the liver and pancreas will work in an energy-saving mode, and the walls of the stomach will not be injured due to solid, non-chewed substances.
On the contrary, due to the increased load on the jaws and more saliva, the teeth and gums are strengthened. And long chewing contributes to weight loss, but we will talk about this separately below.
In short, by spending more time chewing food, we are not wasting time - we are investing in our health, and this, along with self-development, is one of the most valuable investments for a modern person.
So, what is the right way to chew?
Most of us chew food about 10-15 times (and often even less) and then swallow.
This is not enough!
The very minimum is 30 times, but the maximum efficiency of food absorption is achieved with more than 50-100 chews.
The longer we chew food, the better, and this is a proven fact.
Many people, including me, are too lazy to bother with counting chewing movements (it is better to enjoy the taste of food). So if you are also not prone to calculations, then you can use another method for determining the required number of chews.
It's simple: chew until the food turns into a homogeneous slurry and until its taste is felt.
The number of chews depends on what exactly we chew, that is, on the consistency of the food. Therefore, it is better not to focus on the number of chewing movements, but to trust your feelings. After all, you see, chewing a banana and chewing a carrot / are different things for our teeth in terms of the density and hardness of these products.
So it is better to chew until our teeth turn the food into a homogeneous liquid mass, and also until the taste completely disappears. In other words, the more thorough, the better.
Besides, do not rush to swallow quickly liquid food (juices, soups, etc.). As mentioned above, it is recommended to eat liquid food, that is, hold it in your mouth, make several chewing movements, fully enjoy the taste and only then swallow it. This will saturate the liquid with saliva, which, in turn, will contribute to its better absorption by the body.
Therapeutic chewing for weight loss
First, you should know that undigested food pollutes the body and causes weight gain due to toxins that do not have time to be excreted and therefore are stored inside us. Chewing thoroughly means preventing contamination of the body from the inside, which, accordingly, leads to weight loss.
Secondly, we often eat not because of real hunger, but to enjoy the taste of food. Our brain is responsible for feeling full. With the hasty absorption of food, taste buds, along with the corresponding sensory areas of the brain, do not have time to get involved in the process.
That is why our brain does not catch up with the fact that it is time to finish the meal, that is why we continue to hamster both cheeks, often eating too much and, consequently, gaining weight.
One of the causes of excess weight is insufficient chewing of food.
If we chew many times, then saturation occurs faster, and we do not overeat. When chewing for a long time, the amount of food absorbed is reduced, that is, it needs less to achieve a feeling of saturation.
It is established that the feeling of fullness comes after 20-30 minutes. Therefore, you can at least overeat in 10-15 minutes, but this will not get rid of the feeling of hunger. With careful chewing, this does not happen - eating, as they say, with feeling, really, with arrangement, we do not want to eat too much.
Therapeutic chewing- this is the most elementary and easy-to-use diet, which has good efficiency, moreover, therapeutic chewing heals our body and leads to longevity.
A large-scale study was conducted in Japan. Scientists divided 5 thousand volunteers into groups depending on the speed of chewing. There were five groups: “fast”, “quite fast”, “normal”, “rather slow”, “slow”. Based on observations of volunteers, scientists have derived a formula: chew quickly - get fat (plus 2 kg), slowly - lose weight (minus 3 kg). The results speak for themselves.
Another study conducted by experts Medical University Harbin and published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed: when a person chews food 40 times instead of 10-15, the calorie content of his diet is reduced by 12%.
That is, reducing calorie content due to thorough chewing of food is quite effective way weight loss. Genius is simple!
Fletcherism - healing chewing
Horatio Fletcher, founder of therapeutic chewing
The founder of the scientific and practical approach to thorough chewing of food isHoratio Fletcher(1849-1919). About a hundred years ago, his insight into the need for thorough chewing of food was adopted as a valid concept of healthy eating, thanks to which Fletcher helped himself and other people, got rich and became famous all over the world.
Previously, Fletcher himself suffered from obesity and many related diseases. No insurance company wanted to do business with him because the risk was too high.
But thanks to his elemental diet, Horatio lost more than 30 kilograms, and also reduced daily food intake by almost 3 times without any violence against oneself.
After all, as already mentioned above, with long chewing, the feeling of fullness comes at the right time and eliminates gluttony.
Thus, Fletcher, by personal example, proved the effectiveness of thorough chewing of food. Many people followed his example and saw for themselves the effectiveness of long chewing.
From famous people Fletcher's method was used by the world's first billionaire John Rockefeller, who lived to be 98 years old, as well as the talented writer Mark Twain.
Horatio Fletcher argued that " nature punishes those who chew food poorly».
Therefore, you need to chew at least 32 times (by the number of teeth), but later he raised the minimum amount to 100.
In fact, food must be chewed to a liquid state.
This method of therapeutic chewing became known as " fletcherism“, and now it has become popular again due to current problems in the overweight society.
Therapeutic chewing in Russia is promoted by an Altai doctor Sergei Ivanovich Filonov.
Like Fletcher, Sergei Ivanovich felt the effectiveness of long chewing on himself, therefore he recommends it to his patients and acquaintances, who, following the doctor's instructions, manage to lose weight. overweight and without any problems to be kept at the achieved level.
Filonov found out that careful chewing of food not only leads to weight loss, but also generally heals the human body.
Agree, friends, that this is a rather pleasant bonus to getting rid of excess weight.
How to chew properly according to yogis?
Prana is the life energy that pervades the entire universe, although it is invisible to the eye. Yogis claim that long chewing promotes the absorption of prana from food. And the finer the food is crushed, the better. The pleasure and satisfaction that arises when we eat is just evidence of the absorption of prana from food. Thus, the longer we savor each particle of food, the more effectively we receive vital energy.
Therefore, yogis eat their food slowly, chewing it until they “feel it”, that is, chew until the food is able to give a taste sensation. And it is right!?
With such thorough chewing, even an ordinary person, not a yogi, receives much more useful substances and energy from food than when eating in a hurry. Indeed, in this case, each gram of food gives us the maximum of its nutritional value, the maximum of vital energy.
Why chew for a long time?
The process of digestion does not begin in the stomach, but in our mouth. When we slowly, carefully chew food, the taste buds send a detailed report to the brain in a timely manner about what food will now be sent down the esophagus.
Well, the brain, accordingly, decides which digestive program to include, for how long and in what mode of complexity.
As a result, this leads to high-quality digestion of this type of product and the full absorption of nutrients and trace elements that are contained in it.
Thus, we get maximum nutrients, the digestive system is not overloaded, and the body is not polluted.
In a person who swallows food with only half-chewed and insufficiently moistened saliva, most of the nutrients are wasted and pass through the body in the form of a fermenting and rotting mass. This is especially true for people who love to eat meat.
By the way, the secreted saliva is 98 percent water, but it is an extremely useful substance and contains a huge amount of enzymes.
When chewing, food heats up in our mouth, which enhances the catalytic activity of these enzymes, which are necessary for the most complete breakdown and assimilation of food. The more saliva is secreted, the easier it is for the body to extract everything useful from food..
A lot has already been said about losing weight with the help of careful chewing of food in this article. Recall that this is one of the most simple ways reset excess weight , because: firstly, thoroughly chewed food is not deposited in the body in the form of toxins, and secondly, the feeling of fullness comes on time and, accordingly, prevents further gluttony.
Thorough chewing is also useful for the teeth along with the gums. Interesting fact: when we chew, there is very strong pressure on the teeth (from 20 to 120 kilograms, depending on the food we eat). This is a good "charging" for the teeth and gums, as due to the load, there is a significant increase in blood flow.
In addition, our teeth are protected from caries, as saliva neutralizes the acid and sugar contained in food. The components of saliva form a protective film on the teeth and strengthen the enamel.
After all, saliva contains a substance with a special bactericidal effect - lysozyme. The more saliva is released, and the better it mixes with food, the more efficient the process is. disinfection and the safer our meal becomes.
Surprisingly, but careful chewing has a positive effect even on the heart.
1⃣ Firstly, if you swallow food in large pieces, you can get a deformity of the stomach, which, in turn, can lead to pressure on the heart.
2⃣ Secondly, it turns out that with each sip, the heart rate increases by an average of 7-10 beats. When a person rarely swallows, the rhythm quickly returns to normal, but if you almost do not chew and swallow often, then tachycardia may develop. Therefore, chewing food thoroughly reduces the load on the heart, which is especially important for people with cardiovascular diseases.
Separately, one more pleasant fact should be mentioned: when we chew thoroughly, we concentrate all our attention on food, which allows us to appreciate the taste of each piece we eat in much more detail.
Friends, it is as if we are opening the door to a new world, which was always with us, but we did not pay attention to it because of eternal busyness and endless fuss.
Taste sensations become much brighter, turning every meal from an ordinary snack into a small holiday!
The most interesting thing is that you don't have to force yourself.?
Remember how in childhood we loved to savor the taste of food, enjoyed every bite. Gradually this good habit will return, and such a simple action as chewing food will become healing and at the same time bringing joy.
CONCLUSION
The main reason for chewing slowly is excellent digestion and, as a result, gaining health and longevity.
Hippocrates, the great physician of antiquity, said more than 2500 years ago:
"Let food be your medicine and food be your medicine"
And these are golden words.
Even without taking into account what exactly a person eats (although this is very important), we can significantly add health and energy to ourselves with therapeutic chewing.
It is not necessary to turn into a cow chewing all day, but a little more conscious approach to the process of eating will not be superfluous.
Unfortunately, we often live in a frantic pace, and we believe that we have no time to waste our time on all sorts of nonsense like long chewing.
❌ In vain!
After all, when we start to get sick, we spend a lot more nerves, time and money on treatment, while many health problems could have been avoided just by careful chewing.
Of course, it would be an exaggeration to call long chewing a panacea for all diseases, but one thing is certain: it is one of those building blocks on which healthy lifestyle life.
Remember that it is not at all necessary to perform a certain number of chews: even by slightly increasing the duration of chewing food, we will please our body and facilitate its functioning, and in addition we will get more pleasure from the meal. In any case, even a small increase in chewing movements will be beneficial. More is simply better. Therefore, please try to ensure that the food you swallow is chewed as small as possible.
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Which allows you to eat less food and lose weight. The inventor of this diet, Horace Fletcher (1849-1919), was a passionate advocate of "healthy" foods during the Victorian era. He was nicknamed "The Great Crusher" because he argued that food should be chewed thirty-two times (as many as a person's teeth) or chewed at a rate of about 100 times per minute - until swallowed. He claimed that "Nature will punish those who do not chew" and came up with many excuses for this statement.
Horace Fletcher followed his own method with great enthusiasm, saying that the liquid must also be chewed to mix properly with saliva. He claimed that his method of chewing increased a person's strength, improved dental health, reduced food intake, and therefore saved money.
Thus, this method is to extract from each particle of food maximum amount nutrients and eat only the amount you really need. You must deliberately chew and not swallow until the food is liquid in your mouth. Horace Fletcher believed that you can eat any food if you chew it until it is "swallowed by itself."
Horace Fletcher promised that "Fletcherism" (the name of his method), when it became famous, would turn a miserable glutton into a smart foodie. He advised not to eat if there is no "good mood and feeling of hunger." For example, you should not eat if the person is angry, sad, or worried.
Fletcherism recommends knowing the foods we eat. According to Horace Fletcher, food has its waste, so we must know the waste that will enter our body in order to achieve overall well-being. Horace Fletcher promoted his theories at conferences for decades and became a millionaire. Mark Twain, Henry James, John Rockefeller were among those who tried his method of chewing. Henry James and Mark Twain even visited his palace in Venice.
In support of "Fletcherism", Fletcher and his supporters advocated a low-protein diet to restore health and well-being. He recommended avoiding coffee, tea, and alcohol.
Fletcher had a particular interest in human excrement (a general term for any mass or fluid excreted by the digestive system of a living organism). The term excrement most often means urine and feces. Horace Fletcher believed that the only true indicator of a person's nutrition is his excrement. He recommended that children be taught to examine their own excrement to detect diseases. If a person is healthy and eats right, then his excrement (“digestive ash,” as Fletcher liked to say) should be harmless. Fletcher means that "harmless" means that there is no smell or signs of bacteriological decomposition in the excrement.
When Horace Fletcher died in 1919, at the age of 68, his diet plan was already forgotten, obliterated by the following dietary approach, which was also presented as "revolutionary", its inventors were Irving Fisher and Eugene Lyman Fisk and this regime was called "Calorie Counting"
ADVANTAGES
By adopting this "diet", you will train your jaw muscles and greatly help your digestive system recycle the food you eat.
FLAWS
Horace Fletcher advocated not consuming foods that are not chewed, such as. Lack of fiber, in turn, leads to constipation. But Fletcher persisted and insisted that this was the right thing to do and that it was a small price to pay to get and keep good health.
DID YOU KNOW?
Horace Fletcher, before finding a name for his "diet", lost over 20 kilos and cured himself of chronic indigestion through his method of chewing.
Horace Fletcher was born in Lawrence (Massachusetts, USA), a man full of energy. He became a trotter, millionaire businessman (based in San Francisco), amateur artist, teacher, and self-taught nutritionist as he tried to perfect and fanatically preach his "Fletcherism" doctrine for 24 years (from 1895 to 1919).
Although many people believed in the reports of Fletcher's laboratory, but what he did in the gym of the famous Yale University, his experiments shocked many doctors. It was in this hall that he, at the age of 58, participated in vigorous trials of strength and endurance against university athletes. Tests included deep bending of the knee, horizontal hand holding for long periods of time, lifting weights with a calf on a complex machine. Tests claimed that Fletcher outperformed Yale athletes in all competitions and that these athletes were impressed with Fletcher's athletic ability in his advanced age. Fletcher attributed these abilities to diligent adherence to his method of chewing. Ultimately, these tests contributed to Fletcher's wider public acceptance.
