1. Mindful
Eating
How to start
savoring your
Food
Elie Noune,
Stanford University
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2. We live in a Fast
World.
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3. Does your
Fast Life
affect How
you Eat?
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4. Do you feel like
you’re rushing
through your
meals?
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5. Does the End take you
by Surprise?
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6. Did you know that Eating Fast
increases our chances of
OVEREATING?
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7. “In a study of 3000 people
in the British Medical
Journal, those who reported
eating quickly and eating
until full had triple the risk
of being overweight
compared with others.”
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8. According to the
More than 1/3 of
American Adults are
Obese
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9. What can we do about it
today?
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10. What few people realize
is...
Eating Slower leads to
eating Less!
Some people even think the opposite!
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11. Why?
When we eat slower, we
release hormones that
make us feel full faster.
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12. The question is
How do we start
eating slower?
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13. Eating fast is a difficult
habit to change...
It’s hard to push ourselves to chew slower, or to
take smaller bites.
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14. What few people realize,
is that Technology can help
them
eat at a slower pace
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15. What fewer people realize,
is that Music can help
them
eat at a slower pace
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16. Yes. Music can help
regulate your chewing
speed
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17. Chewing to the Beat of a
slow song can help you
chew slower
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18. I know this because I did
an experiment with 3
students at Stanford
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19. I used a metronome
application to generate
audio clicks at a specific beat
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20. I asked them to chew in
sync with the beats they
were listening to...
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21. ...first starting with their
natural chewing rate
Around 130 beats per minute
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22. ...then reducing the pace by
increments of 10 bpm
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23. It was really surprising...
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24. How easy it was for them...
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25. To progressively adjust to
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26. Slower speeds.
Less than 95 beats per minute!
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27. That’s 30% slower!
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28. In less than 30 minutes!
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29. If you want to eat slower,
Listen to slow Music while
you eat
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30. Thank you!
Elie Noune
@elienoune
elnoune@stanford.edu
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