Eating Healthy: 5 Food Habits to Kick
Posted by Virginia H. | Posted in Articles | Posted on 02-07-2010-05-2008
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Like spare change and catchy lyrics, bad eating habits are easy to pick up and nearly impossible to shake. Especially if you’ve practiced them at every meal since you were a kid. To help you overcome your table tics, we’ve rounded up expert advice on how to quit wolfing down your food and sidestep other diet pitfalls. Follow it, and you may end up with a new habit: buying all of your clothes in a smaller size.
New habit: Hitting the brakes. In a study, women who were asked to eat quickly consumed more food (and in less time)
than those who were told to eat slowly. The reason? When you pace yourself, your brain has more time to register fullness and tell you to stop eating.
Try this: Count your chews. The women in the study who were told to slow down chewed each bite 15 to 20 times and paused before taking the next bite.
New habit: Meditating on your meal. Researchers at the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University studied mealtime multitasking and found that most people underestimate how much they eat by 30 to 50 percent if they’re distracted.








