Digestion begins in the mouth



We have all heard advice that should chew your food thoroughly and eat slowly. However, it is difficult to follow this advice, if we do not know the reasons why you need to do it and why it is useful for the organism.

The first important step in the digestive process begins with chewing food, when the salivary glands are activated and begin to work those organs, which later get prepared for further processing and food digestion.

Human saliva contains 98% of water, but also contains a number of important enzymes and other substances having antibacterial properties. Teeth milled food, while the enzymes contained in the saliva digested complex carbohydrates into simple, which makes it easier digestion.

If you have bad chew food and absorb it into large chunks, then your body will be more difficult to digest.
The smaller pieces of food, the less air enters the gastrointestinal tract, which prevents gassing and bloating.

In addition, large pieces of food more difficult to move through the gastrointestinal tract.

The more you chew your food, the faster it digest and absorb by the body. The more thoroughly you razzhuete every morsel of food, the stronger will be the impact on him of digestive enzymes, and the faster and more efficiently nutrients are metabolized by the body.

To send that signal that the stomach is full, the brain takes about twenty minutes.
If you eat fast, you eat more food than you need before you realize that is already filled.

If you chew each bite of food slowly, the longer you eat, but are necessary for 20 minutes, and therefore decreases the risk of overeating.

In today's world, we have to eat quickly.
However, the more you make chewing movements, the sweeter the taste of the food will be, because saliva breaks down complex carbohydrates into simple.

familiar food taste quality will emerge stronger, and you can understand how amazingly delicious food can be.

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