One wrong thing causing you to bloat at lunch time!

How many times have you found yourself inhaling your salad at lunch time or eating while typing an email and getting things messy around you, or even getting angry about some work updates and putting all this anger inside your body.

Notice if you feel bloated and in pain few minutes later after this type of lunch. News is bloating is also related to how you eat. “When you chew your food, your mouth creates digestive enzymes called salivary amylase that help you break down your food and absorb nutrients from it. Your stomach doesn’t have teeth, so when we don’t chew your food well enough, your stomach has to use more acid and more energy to properly break it down, causing you to feel sluggish and bloated.” (article from mindbodygreen, “what your bloating can tell you about your gut health”, by Lindsay Tobias)

When you chew your food until almost liquid, you have an easier smoother and stronger digestion and less pieces kept for fermentation and gas formation.

Aryuverda calls for chewing your food 30 times, until liquified, can you imagine? No need to count but at least to be mindful of the bite versus eating mindlessly, with the mind busy in all the tasks of this fast-paced modern life.

Gas, bloating and acid reflux might improve a lot. So who will start chewing more?