Chew slowly, reduce the risk of diabetes by 80%

Japanese research has shown that eating too quickly can cause your body to go into sugar "shock" and cause insulin resistance - the cause of diabetes.

Diabetes is considered a modern "epidemic", the main causes of which are unhealthy diet and lack of exercise. However, a research team led by Dr. Takayuri Yamaji (Hiroshima University, Japan) has just discovered that the way a person eats can also greatly affect their risk of getting the disease.

Chew slowly, reduce the risk of diabetes by 80%

Rushing lunch at your desk is more harmful than you think.

Scientists followed more than 1,000 middle-aged men and women for five years, recording their eating habits and screening them for diabetes. They were divided into three groups: those who enjoyed their meals by eating slowly, those who ate at an average speed, and those who ate quickly to save time.

Over the five-year study, just over 2% of people in the slow-eating group developed metabolic syndrome, compared with 6.5% of people in the average-speed group. Up to 11.6% of people in the fast-eating group developed diabetes.

According to a report recently presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Conference, the research team explained this difference as being due to the fact that eating speed affects certain aspects of brain activity.

First of all, when you eat too fast, there will come a time when your body has enough to eat but your brain has not yet recorded and sent the signal "full", making you still feel like eating and will eat too much.

More importantly, rapidly consuming a large amount of food will cause sudden changes in blood glucose levels, which over time will lead to insulin resistance - the cause of diabetes.

Therefore, you should regain the habit of leisurely enjoying delicious and nutritious meals.

According to NLĐ