EAT MINDFULLY

 Pay Attention To The Whole Eating Process

Eat With Attention

  Eating consciously prevents overeating. Paying attention to your food slows you down when you eat. Research led by Mark Gold, MD at the University of Florida shows that it takes 12 or more minutes for food satisfaction signals to reach the brain of a thin person, but 20 or more minutes for an obese person. Eating slowly ensures that these important messages have time to reach the brain.

  Attentive eating also makes you enjoy eating your food more. Acknowledge what's on your plate. Look at the colour and textures. Focus on the aromas and flavour of each mouthful. Put your fork and sppon on the plate between few bites, chew slowly and really savour the experience.

Paying attention stimulates digestion. There is an initial phase of digestion called the Cephalic phase that occurs before we actually start to eat. Cephalic means "head", so it is not surprising that this initial phase of digestion begins with the brain seeing, smelling and anticipating food.