Eating more deliberately can help you make better choices about nourishing your body, says Lilian Cheung, a mindful eating lecturer at Harvard. She shares how to enjoy meals while paying attention. This episode originally published September 11, 2023. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
You ever eat so fast that you get hiccups from just, like, inhaling the meal, or you bite your cheek or your tongue because you mistook it for food?
Yeah, I've done it.
And that's horrible because once you bit your tongue or part of your side of your mouth, you get a canker sore, and it's going to just really disrupt your eating throughout the next days.
Right?
So that's no fun.
That's Lillian Chung.
She's a lecturer on nutrition and the director of mindfulness Research and Practice at Harvard University.
Other signs you're eating too fast, you.
May get heartburn and just discomfort, you know, or later on, you might feel still hungry and want to eat more despite of the fact that you thought you ate already.
There are a lot of reasons we scarf down our food.
Tight deadlines, short lunch breaks.
Also the great American virtue of productivity.
That'S infiltrated every part of our lives.