Eat Slowly
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In our bustling modern lives, it can be all too easy to wolf down our meals on the go, and never take the time to enjoy them properly. In this episode, Michael Mosley finds out how simply slowing down the speed at which you eat can help you feel full for longer, snack less, and improve your digestion. Michael speaks to Dr Sarah Berry from the department of nutritional sciences at King's College London, who shares findings showing that eating slower can reduce your blood sugar response to food, as well as reducing your calorie intake. Our volunteer Stewart tries to make eating slowly a habit in an attempt to improve his sleep.
Series Producer: Nija Dalal-Small Science Producer: Christine Johnston Researcher: William Hornbrook Researcher: Sophie Richardson Production Manager: Maria Simons Editor: Zoë Heron Commissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:06.6 | Right, I'm going to enjoy this. |
| 0:09.6 | We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated with often |
| 0:15.4 | conflicting advice. So if you're going to try just one thing to improve your mental and physical |
| 0:21.3 | well-being, what should it be? Maybe playing a musical instrument |
| 0:25.5 | to boost your brain power, or a spoonful of olive oil to help your heart. How about doing some |
| 0:31.8 | volunteering to improve your immune system? your |
| 0:34.0 | immune system. I'm Dr. Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode |
| 0:40.0 | we'll explore one thing you can start doing today to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm at the kitchen table and I'm about to do something really simple that could help me feel fuller for longer and improve my digestion and blood sugars. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm going to eat my meal which is in front of me really slowly and enjoy every mouthful. |
| 1:08.3 | That's good. Eat slowly is something my mother used to say to me all the time, but it seems that science has finally caught up with her. |
| 1:16.2 | Because it can take 20 minutes or so from when we start eating for your brain to register you've had enough, |
| 1:22.4 | simply slowing down could lead to feeling more |
| 1:25.3 | satiated in the short term. Not only that, but in the long term, it could have a big impact, |
| 1:30.7 | as research has linked a leisurely pace of eating to lower levels of |
| 1:35.0 | cholesterol and less belly fat. So how about slowing down? I'll be speaking to |
| 1:41.1 | Stuart who works with the emergency services in Glasgow to see if he can make his meal times last a bit longer. |
| 1:48.0 | Hello Stuart. |
| 1:49.0 | Hi, how you doing? |
| 1:50.0 | Good thanks. Now what's your day-to-day routine like at the moment? |
| 1:53.6 | I work a variety of shifts so I can be getting up at maybe five in the morning for one week and then |
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