1-C Food - How to eat

How to eat

You chew your food little by little, morsel by morsel. Chew thoroughly, whatever food you take whether it is rice or chappathy. Chew it thoroughly. The more you chew, the greater the salivary flow and better the digestion. Many people have got gas complaint and other troubles just because they do not chew the food thoroughly. Chew the food thoroughly. Eat slowly. Do no commit the mistake of hurried eating. Remember that the saliva should come in the mouth. It cannot flow in the stomach. Some people take rice, add a lot of sambar, rasam or buttermilk, make it all into a form of liquid and drink it in no time. If you do not chew the food thoroughly, if your starch is not dry and if it is messy and pasty no saliva will come. Consequently the starch cannot be digested and if the starch is undigested, the undigested starch will absorb the pepsin and so the protein also will not be digested. So, see that your food is chewed thoroughly. Some people take one morsel of rice, and then drink one cup of water to wash it down and another morsel of rice and another cup of water. They never chew it. They just wash it down. From the physiological point of view it is really objectionable. So chew the food thoroughly. Do not eat very hot foods. If you eat food which is very hot, the saliva will beome ineffective. Some people drink very hot coffee, milk or tea. It is so hot that it cannot be put in the mouth. So they make the mouth into a funnel and pour into the funnel and like that they drink very hot coffee, very hot tea, or very hot milk. Regularly drinking very hot liquid produces peptic ulcer. So do not eat very hot foods. The food that you eat should be at the body temperature. Because if the food is very hot the ptylin, the digestive enzyme in the saliva is destroyed, it is ineffective. Similarly just because you have got a fridge do not take very cold foods. Foods which are very very cold, will also make the ptyalin effective. So please remember not to take very cold foods, not to take stale foods and all that..

We spend so much for food but we are eating it wrongly. So we are ill. Our children are ill and we are suffering and if you eat wrongly all the time, by the time you reach middle age you become useless to the society. We develop various diseases. Remember the one great sentence of a great American authority on health that the diseases of 40’s and 50’s are mostly due to mistakes of 20’s and 30’s. When we are young we go on committing mistakes day after day. We do not bother. When we reach the age of 50 or 55 then we suffer due to the cumulative effect of the wrongs done by us. Let us be careful and practicable.