note: I didn’t mean to be coming across as adversarial. I’m asking because you expressed very strong confidence in a claim that was surprising to me.
I tried chewing that way once and it felt gross so I stopped and I’d need a compelling reason to do it again. “people reliably feel better / get more energy / something” is a plausible reason. I’m not asking for you to fully justify the idea here, I just wanted a sense of whether your belief came more from “I tried it and it had a small effect, or a large effect, or I read some studies“ or whatnot. There’s a huge number of things to try.
I have a background model on why satiety matters, which I’m assuming we‘re on the same page about. I agree that eating slower is good for ‘detect satiety’ reasons, but I can do that by just pausing more.
I also do try to eat mindfully, which I find intrinsically enjoyable, but not when I’m chewing things until they’re liquid
:) liquid/paste/pulp … mechanically processing your food with your teeth to increase its surface area is a good thing. Chewing increases the production of saliva so more enzymes available and more time for them to mix with the food. Although I dislike the expression, it’s a “no-brainer” to me hence the confidence.
I was expecting more of a push-back on food that’s grown not manufactured. A visceral belief but I’d struggle to form a rational argument—there’s a lack of scientific proof for something so hard to test. Nature’s hard to beat.
note: I didn’t mean to be coming across as adversarial. I’m asking because you expressed very strong confidence in a claim that was surprising to me.
I tried chewing that way once and it felt gross so I stopped and I’d need a compelling reason to do it again. “people reliably feel better / get more energy / something” is a plausible reason. I’m not asking for you to fully justify the idea here, I just wanted a sense of whether your belief came more from “I tried it and it had a small effect, or a large effect, or I read some studies“ or whatnot. There’s a huge number of things to try.
I have a background model on why satiety matters, which I’m assuming we‘re on the same page about. I agree that eating slower is good for ‘detect satiety’ reasons, but I can do that by just pausing more.
I also do try to eat mindfully, which I find intrinsically enjoyable, but not when I’m chewing things until they’re liquid
:) liquid/paste/pulp … mechanically processing your food with your teeth to increase its surface area is a good thing. Chewing increases the production of saliva so more enzymes available and more time for them to mix with the food. Although I dislike the expression, it’s a “no-brainer” to me hence the confidence.
I was expecting more of a push-back on food that’s grown not manufactured. A visceral belief but I’d struggle to form a rational argument—there’s a lack of scientific proof for something so hard to test. Nature’s hard to beat.