A period of time to chew food turned out to be influential on the scales weight. People who chew the food longer will mengasup the number of calories less than people who eat quickly.
In research published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, known to people who chew the food up to 40 times, mengasup 12 percent fewer calories than those who chew on just 15 times.
Jie Li and his team of Harbin Medical University in China that does this research observes force feeding the obese and 14 men 4 men with normal weight. Li focuses on the effects of chewing on blood sugar levels or certain hormones that regulate appetite.
The results are known the existence of a link between the number of cud with some types of hormone levels. "The more we chew on lower levels of ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates the appetite and also hormones that decrease appetite CCK," said Wang, an assistant researcher Shuran.
He added, these hormones will become a target in the treatment of obesity therapies in the future.
In this research did not found the link between the duration of chewing with insulin or blood sugar levels, both at a group of obesity or weight to normal.
Because this research is only done on a small group of respondents, then the same effect is not necessarily found in the general population.