Eating With Your Hands is Healthier
According to research, our hands contain an enzyme called "Rnase", which can inhibit the growth of bacteria in food when eating with our hands. These enzymes will mix with the food that enters the mouth, so that the food will be clean from disease germs. In contrast to spoons made of metal, even though they are clean, they do not necessarily minimize bacteria in food.
Benefits of Eating Using Your Hands
Apart from the presence of beneficial enzymes, there are also other benefits if we eat with our hands.
Eating with our hands will make us enjoy every food that enters our body more. Eating like this serves to encourage us to be more patient with signals of fullness after eating enough.
Helps helps assimilate the body's nutrients and influences the digestive system positively.
If we eat using cutlery that conducts heat, our mouth will burn. Likewise with the lips and tongue, if exposed to heat it will be painful. But when food is entered using our hands, we will know how hot the food is before it touches our lips or mouth.
When our hands touch food, our brain signals the stomach that we are going to eat. And food will be digested properly with the help of enzymes and digestive juices.
When eating, bacterial diversity will be maintained, but we must remember that make sure you wash your hands before eating to ensure that no disease-causing bacteria enter our bodies.
From several existing studies, it turns out that eating with your hands provides its own benefits, compared to eating with a spoon. But back to your taste.
Apart from talking about eating using a spoon or hands, it turns out there is another myth, namely about eating position. It turns out that adjusting your body position when you eat is very important for health. There are those who choose to eat using a dining chair, there are also those who choose to eat by leaning back.
Well, this is the most legendary, there are people who eat while lying down. So, of those three positions, which one is healthy?
Which eating position do you think is healthy?
So, choosing an eating position really depends on your comfort. Some choose to lean back, some choose to sit in a chair, some choose to sit on the floor. Each has its own myth.
So, before you decide which comfort you will choose, try to read the following explanation.
Eating in a reclining position can apparently make someone able to eat more food, so they will feel full after eating. It is said that eating while leaning back, describes the sitting position of a person who is eating heartily. There are also people who eat while lying down. This position is a very bad eating position, because it can interfere with the passage of food into digestion.
Then the next eating position is eating while cross-legged, or kesehan. It is said that the position of eating while cross-legged or on a cross-legged position is actually more recommended. Because the position will make the body bend slightly to approach the plate. This movement makes the stomach muscles work more actively, and the digestive process in the stomach is better.
Is it true that eating while cross-legged or lying down is the most correct eating position?
Actually, this is the position of eating, if you eat normally with food you have to chew it, eat rice, everything. That's the same between lying on a chair and sitting. Because of its position between the mouth and esophagus, then the stomach, it is perpendicular, right? So the food will go down, because of the pressure of attraction, gravity, right.
Well, so it actually doesn't have any influence. What's different is if you eat while sleeping. While sleeping he needs to swallow reflexes. And when he sleeps his food is rough, swallowing it becomes more difficult. Because there is no gravity effect, the weight is downwards, because of the sleeping position.
That's why many people get sick if they eat while sleeping. Usually it's in liquid form, it's soft, it's easier to chew, that's it.
Well, according to India Times.com, it turns out that eating while lying down has many benefits. Firstly, it can improve digestion, secondly it can improve your posture, and thirdly, it makes you more aware of what you eat.
So, based on these benefits, what do you think, would you choose to eat while cross-legged?
The choice is in your hands.
Thanks for reading.
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By @midiagam