E A T I N G needs patience....???

When I am in a hurry, If it is dry I chew my food with water and swallow it one by one, so that I may not encounter any uncomfortable digestions in my stomach. I regret before when I was in a hurry and I only swallow my food without chewing, I experienced irritations in my stomach and feels i am having a heavy head. Well, after that time I felt it, I never try to swallow food without chewing on the next day.

Eating slowly and chewing up the food is good for health. In today's efficiency or productivity oriented work culture, the pressure to achieve the work target has made time away from work a luxury. Usually lunch is eaten on the work desk while your eyes are still on your work staring at the monitor screen. Breakfast is just a cup of coffee at home or in the office if traffic is heavy on the road. Dinner is the only time that can be eaten on the meal table at home with family if there is no overtime to do. Life as a white collar worker. It was me a few years ago. Now I have more time and more freedom in my job. I am eating a proper lunch. I think I chew more slowly. I also eat more. But I always enjoy my food, even when I ate them on my work desk. My health is always good. But we never know about tomorrow.

Thank you for sharing this with us, busybee. It is best to eat slowly, no matter what others think. We need time to chew the food and break it down to smaller pieces so that the digestive enzymes will be able to convert it to soluble form, ready for assimilation. Eating hurriedly is a waste. When I had to rush to work, in a bowl, I put oatmeal with some water in the microwave for about 2 minutes. Then,I add the coffee, milk, either brown sugar, banana or marshmallows, then sprinkle with sunflower kernels. There, I have my carbohydrates, proteins, some vitamins and minerals and I enjoy it. I always need coffee to start my day, but it's in my concoction. This lasts me till lunchtime. Have a great day, my friend.

In certain countries, eating is like a religious ceremony that contains the washing up of hands, praying over the food and consuming the food with peace and harmoney. Parents never allow their children to discuss with arrogance. They encourage to be silent and eat slowly without putting any pressure. They encourage us to be pleasant but not to make noise but be aware of the fact that we are eating. They never allow the children to criticise or fight . They never allow them shed tears over the eating plate. They encourage the children to be thakful to God for giving this meal. So they never allow neither to be too much emotional nor to be too gloomy but to be dignified and be pleasant.

Thank you upbringing this discussion to this forum. I don't really know the goodness of chewing our food when we ate. I knew mostly people eat their meal hurriedly for some reasons like my ever my mom told me to do. I am a late eater, I mean I dislike to be hurried when eating and I didn't like that behavior. I just wanna to enjoy or savor the taste of my food. I don't want to eat in place where there are too many people. I felt I was irritated by them because I could not tolerate people who stared at me when I was eating something. That's pathetic. I just don't want to be watched by them when I ate my meal.

I'm guilt of this. I eat too fast sometimes, because of the work load that i have. sometimes I don't savor the taste of the food i eat because of always in a hurry. and the health problem that i am facing now is, I am over weight

I think I would be the same as the nowadays people, eating as soon as I can so I can get back to whatever I was doing before I had to eat... Well, I don;t eat a lot anyway...