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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

You ever eat so fast that you get hiccups from just like inhaling the meal?

Or you bite your cheek or your tongue because you mistook it for food.

Yeah, I've done it.

And that's horrible because once you bit your tongue or part of your side of your mouth,

you get a canker soul and it's going to just really disrupt your eating

throughout the next days, right?

So that's no fun.

That's Lillian Chung.

She's a lecturer on nutrition,

and the director of mindfulness research

and practice at Harvard University.

Other signs you're eating too fast?

You may get heartburn and just discomfort, you know.

Or later on, you might feel still hungry and want to eat more despite of the fact that you thought you ate already.

There are a lot of reasons we scarf down our food.

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