The average American meal clocks in at 11 minutes.
Without Passports, they have to settle for Kentucky
Unfortunately, It’s really wearing them out, especially the pancreas. Many claim this is a contributing factor to our nation’s diabetes epidemic.
Would you rather sip your milkshake slowly through a straw, or get in a chugging contest with your older cousin that only ends in a brainfreeze and the terrible sting of defeat? If your older than six and can read this, it's probably the straw route. When you eat a meal faster than normal, it flushes your blood stream with more glucose faster than normal. This signals your pancreas to dump as much insulin as it takes to get your sugar back in normal levels. Insulin as we know pushes glucose into our body's cells to be used as energy and because the body only need's so much at one time, the rest gets stored as fat. When you examine the diet of the french, italian and brazilian you'll find it compares with ours very closely. Lot's of saturated fats, complex carbohydrates and sugars. However, the average figure in these countries is slimmer. Why? Because they eat a little bit less and a whole lot slower.
Tomorrow, tell your boss you want a 3 hour lunch break. I’m kidding. “This is America, we weren’t first to the moon by taking 3 hour hippie lunch breaks.” That’s what mine would say anyway. Heck, some jobs don’t even get “official” lunch breaks, and if they did it wouldn’t allow for lounging toga-clad on a divan for 90 minutes while someone slowly fed them grapes.
The Greeks loved ‘em, I honestly just don’t see the attraction..
That’s not what I’m talking about. You don’t take all your meals at work, and even the craziest jobs allow for a little downtime occasionally. Below are a list of tips that you can use to significantly slow down the spike of insulin your body receives after a typical American meal. Start following these on a regular basis and you may find your pants a little lighter at the end of the holiday season. If you are diabetic, you could notice a glucose reading quite a bit lower than you normally expect. It’s crazy, but you may even find yourself actually enjoying your meals when you make the time to. Here’s the list.
· Pick a meal with different textures and borders on a plate as opposed to “5 things mashed up in a bowl”. Look at any kid with a bowl of Sugar Bombs during Saturday morning cartoons. It’s easy to speed eat from a bowl.
· Set time aside for the meal. Set a clock if you have to. 30 minutes for each meal unless your boss is going to throw you on the street or the house is burning down.
· Use smaller silverware, and smaller plates. We tend to shovel it in, I’m just as guilty as any. Therefore, make the shovel smaller.
· Set the fork down between every single bite. If someone is eating with you this is a fantastic time to strike up a conversation.
· Get a large beverage (preferably Water) and take sips between each bite.
· Consciously take smaller bites. Make and effort to never overstuff.
· Tabasco pepper sauce. It slows you down and can be used on a lot of things, but only if you don’t get regular heartburn. It also helps if you like spicy food.
· Sit at a table, this keeps you from multi-tasking and allows you to eat with others.
· Try to eat before your starving. Nobody likes pacing themselves when their stomach is gnawing on their spine.
· This last one is ancient, and we’ve all heard it, but it works. Count out a specific number of “Chews”. Say 10 at first, then bump your way up to 20.
The average American meal clocks in at 11 minutes.
Without Passports, they have to settle for Kentucky
Unfortunately, It’s really wearing them out, especially the pancreas. Many claim this is a contributing factor to our nation’s diabetes epidemic.
Would you rather sip your milkshake slowly through a straw, or get in a chugging contest with your older cousin that only ends in a brainfreeze and the terrible sting of defeat? If your older than six and can read this, it's probably the straw route. When you eat a meal faster than normal, it flushes your blood stream with more glucose faster than normal. This signals your pancreas to dump as much insulin as it takes to get your sugar back in normal levels. Insulin as we know pushes glucose into our body's cells to be used as energy and because the body only need's so much at one time, the rest gets stored as fat. When you examine the diet of the french, italian and brazilian you'll find it compares with ours very closely. Lot's of saturated fats, complex carbohydrates and sugars. However, the average figure in these countries is slimmer. Why? Because they eat a little bit less and a whole lot slower.
Tomorrow, tell your boss you want a 3 hour lunch break. I’m kidding. “This is America, we weren’t first to the moon by taking 3 hour hippie lunch breaks.” That’s what mine would say anyway. Heck, some jobs don’t even get “official” lunch breaks, and if they did it wouldn’t allow for lounging toga-clad on a divan for 90 minutes while someone slowly fed them grapes.
The Greeks loved ‘em, I honestly just don’t see the attraction..
That’s not what I’m talking about. You don’t take all your meals at work, and even the craziest jobs allow for a little downtime occasionally. Below are a list of tips that you can use to significantly slow down the spike of insulin your body receives after a typical American meal. Start following these on a regular basis and you may find your pants a little lighter at the end of the holiday season. If you are diabetic, you could notice a glucose reading quite a bit lower than you normally expect. It’s crazy, but you may even find yourself actually enjoying your meals when you make the time to. Here’s the list.
· Pick a meal with different textures and borders on a plate as opposed to “5 things mashed up in a bowl”. Look at any kid with a bowl of Sugar Bombs during Saturday morning cartoons. It’s easy to speed eat from a bowl.
· Set time aside for the meal. Set a clock if you have to. 30 minutes for each meal unless your boss is going to throw you on the street or the house is burning down.
· Use smaller silverware, and smaller plates. We tend to shovel it in, I’m just as guilty as any. Therefore, make the shovel smaller.
· Set the fork down between every single bite. If someone is eating with you this is a fantastic time to strike up a conversation.
· Get a large beverage (preferably Water) and take sips between each bite.
· Consciously take smaller bites. Make and effort to never overstuff.
· Tabasco pepper sauce. It slows you down and can be used on a lot of things, but only if you don’t get regular heartburn. It also helps if you like spicy food.
· Sit at a table, this keeps you from multi-tasking and allows you to eat with others.
· Try to eat before your starving. Nobody likes pacing themselves when their stomach is gnawing on their spine.
· This last one is ancient, and we’ve all heard it, but it works. Count out a specific number of “Chews”. Say 10 at first, then bump your way up to 20.
The average American meal clocks in at 11 minutes.
Mexico takes the entire afternoon off for lunch. France and Italy take almost 3 hours to eat dinner in the evening. Here in America, we can finish an entire meal before Lynyrd Skynyrd plays the entirety of Freebird. Couple that with an overall increase in the American meal size and it's really no wonder we bring home the gold medal in obesity. Imagine if your boss popped into your cubicle tomorrow and instead of saying hello, dropped 3 hours of work on your desk and demanded its completion by the mid-morning meeting, which starts in ten minutes. Now rinse and repeat this horrible idea 3 times a day for the rest of your employment. You would probably try to find a new job, and it would probably be sooner than later. Fortunately for us, our stomach, pancreas, liver and other digestive organs can't put in their two weeks and hitchhike to Mexico.
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| Without Passports, they have to settle for Kentucky |
Unfortunately, It’s really wearing them out, especially the pancreas. Many claim this is a contributing factor to our nation’s diabetes epidemic.
Would you rather sip your milkshake slowly through a straw, or get in a chugging contest with your older cousin that only ends in a brainfreeze and the terrible sting of defeat? If your older than six and can read this, it's probably the straw route. When you eat a meal faster than normal, it flushes your blood stream with more glucose faster than normal. This signals your pancreas to dump as much insulin as it takes to get your sugar back in normal levels. Insulin as we know pushes glucose into our body's cells to be used as energy and because the body only need's so much at one time, the rest gets stored as fat. When you examine the diet of the french, italian and brazilian you'll find it compares with ours very closely. Lot's of saturated fats, complex carbohydrates and sugars. However, the average figure in these countries is slimmer. Why? Because they eat a little bit less and a whole lot slower.
Would you rather sip your milkshake slowly through a straw, or get in a chugging contest with your older cousin that only ends in a brainfreeze and the terrible sting of defeat? If your older than six and can read this, it's probably the straw route. When you eat a meal faster than normal, it flushes your blood stream with more glucose faster than normal. This signals your pancreas to dump as much insulin as it takes to get your sugar back in normal levels. Insulin as we know pushes glucose into our body's cells to be used as energy and because the body only need's so much at one time, the rest gets stored as fat. When you examine the diet of the french, italian and brazilian you'll find it compares with ours very closely. Lot's of saturated fats, complex carbohydrates and sugars. However, the average figure in these countries is slimmer. Why? Because they eat a little bit less and a whole lot slower.
Tomorrow, tell your boss you want a 3 hour lunch break. I’m kidding. “This is America, we weren’t first to the moon by taking 3 hour hippie lunch breaks.” That’s what mine would say anyway. Heck, some jobs don’t even get “official” lunch breaks, and if they did it wouldn’t allow for lounging toga-clad on a divan for 90 minutes while someone slowly fed them grapes.
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| The Greeks loved ‘em, I honestly just don’t see the attraction.. |
That’s not what I’m talking about. You don’t take all your meals at work, and even the craziest jobs allow for a little downtime occasionally. Below are a list of tips that you can use to significantly slow down the spike of insulin your body receives after a typical American meal. Start following these on a regular basis and you may find your pants a little lighter at the end of the holiday season. If you are diabetic, you could notice a glucose reading quite a bit lower than you normally expect. It’s crazy, but you may even find yourself actually enjoying your meals when you make the time to. Here’s the list.
· Pick a meal with different textures and borders on a plate as opposed to “5 things mashed up in a bowl”. Look at any kid with a bowl of Sugar Bombs during Saturday morning cartoons. It’s easy to speed eat from a bowl.
· Set time aside for the meal. Set a clock if you have to. 30 minutes for each meal unless your boss is going to throw you on the street or the house is burning down.
· Use smaller silverware, and smaller plates. We tend to shovel it in, I’m just as guilty as any. Therefore, make the shovel smaller.
· Set the fork down between every single bite. If someone is eating with you this is a fantastic time to strike up a conversation.
· Get a large beverage (preferably Water) and take sips between each bite.
· Consciously take smaller bites. Make and effort to never overstuff.
· Tabasco pepper sauce. It slows you down and can be used on a lot of things, but only if you don’t get regular heartburn. It also helps if you like spicy food.
· Sit at a table, this keeps you from multi-tasking and allows you to eat with others.
· Try to eat before your starving. Nobody likes pacing themselves when their stomach is gnawing on their spine.
· This last one is ancient, and we’ve all heard it, but it works. Count out a specific number of “Chews”. Say 10 at first, then bump your way up to 20.
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