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  Lexico.com* defines: 'eat' as 'put (food) into the mouth and chew and swallow it', and 'chew' as 'bite and work (food) in the mouth with the teeth, especially to make it easier to swallow' Chewing We at Green Health Watch Magazine think that chewing has other important roles, e.g.: reducing food into a smooth, gruel-like liquid in preparation for its further breaking down by the stomach (using churning, digestive enzymes and gastric acid (see Edi)) in preparation for its digestion by the small intestine promoting calm and rumination (thinking time) promoting the values of the Slow Movement - slowing downthe 21st Century's current frenetic pace Mindful chewing   Never 'wolf' your food down.   1. Fill your mouth two-thirds full. One moderately heaped spoon or fork should     do the trick.   2. Pause. Put down your cutlery. Focus your attention on...

Further to 'Nick has a go' (GreenHealth Watch Magazine Edition 52 page 7) ...  I made good progress towards consuming ten 80 gram (g) portions of vegetables and fruit (V&F) a day, but began to feel very full. I will spare you the details. Suffice it to say that my body's waste disposal system began to challenge my house's waste disposal system. The solution was obvious but unwelcome - reduce the volume of cereal, meat and fish I was eating. But then I thought ... if I were to accept a lower target of, say, eight portions of V&F a day, and bearing in mind the advice that most V&F bring a unique contribution of nutrition to the feast ... which V&F that I regularly eat would I stop eating? Was there any almost 'dead wood' V&F in my current diet? From what I'd heard and read previously there were two obvious candidates - parsnips and potatoes - so I decided to research them in more detail. I found out the following ... ...