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Hey everybody, it's Maryl.

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 why should you bit your tongue or a part of your side of your mouth?

You get a canker sole and it's going to just really disrupt your eating throughout the next days, right?

So that's no fun.

That's Lillian Chang.

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 hyper and just discomfort 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.

Tight deadlines, short lunch breaks, also the great American virtue of productivity that's infiltrated every part of our lives.

Like let me hurry up and eat so I can run more errands.

Or if you grew up without enough food, you might have a feeling of scarcity while you're eating.

And for some of us it's just a habit.

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