How to start savoring your Food

Mindful Eating

How to start savoring your Food

Elie Noune,Stanford University

Thursday, December 13, 12

We live in a Fast World.


Does your Fast Life

affect How you Eat?


Do you feel like you’re rushing through your

meals?Thursday, December 13, 12

Does the End take you by Surprise?


Did you know that Eating Fast increases our chances of

OVEREATING?


“In a study of 3000 people in the British Medical Journal, those who reported eating quickly and eating until full had triple the risk of being overweight compared with others.”


According to the

More than 1/3 of American Adults are

Obese


What can we do about it today?


What few people realize is...

Eating Slower leads to eating Less!

Some people even think the opposite!


Why?

When we eat slower, we release hormones that make us feel full faster.


The question is

How do we start eating slower?


Eating fast is a difficult habit to change...

It’s hard to push ourselves to chew slower, or to take smaller bites.


is that Technology can help them

eat at a slower pace

What few people realize,


is that Music can help them

eat at a slower pace

What fewer people realize,


Yes. Music can help regulate your chewing

speed


Chewing to the Beat of a slow song can help you

chew slower


I know this because I did an experiment with 3 students at Stanford


I used a metronome application to generate

audio clicks at a specific beatThursday, December 13, 12

I asked them to chew in sync with the beats they

were listening to...Thursday, December 13, 12

...first starting with their natural chewing rate

Around 130 beats per minuteThursday, December 13, 12

...then reducing the pace by increments of 10 bpm


It was really surprising...


How easy it was for them...


To progressively adjust to


Slower speeds.

Less than 95 beats per minute!Thursday, December 13, 12

That’s 30% slower!


In less than 30 minutes!


If you want to eat slower, Listen to slow Music while

you eat


Thank you!

Elie Noune@[email protected]


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