The science behind why you should drink food and chew water? Sounds weird?
All of us eat food and drink water to survive and to do our everyday activities. Personally, until recently I never realized that I have been eating food and drinking water the wrong way my whole life. But it is fine, I take inspiration from the adage “One is never too late to learn something new”. Hence, I changed my habits to ensure that eating food and drinking water is done in the right way as per the design of the body.
Why we should drink food?
To begin with, the most important understanding required is that digestion starts in the mouth. In fact, our mouth is the first stomach. During mastication of food with teeth a whole lot of enzymes are released through saliva and when it mixes with food, partial digestion and nutrients extraction already happens in the mouth. To achieve this, the food should be chewed as many times such that it is becomes liquified before it enters the stomach. Ideally as per nutritional experts, they say it takes around 30 chews to get food to this form. But one can personally try based on the type of food as it may take more than 30 chews for hard foods and less than 30 chews for soft foods.
What happens when food is liquified this way? The salivary enzymes spring into action. The two prominent ones for pre-digestion are
- Ptyalin: This breaks down complex…