Chewing your food 20 times

Saliva and gastric acid contain enzymes that break the chyme down further with a process called chemical digestion, where our body further breaks everything we eat into small absorbable molecules.

The bolus keeps being pushed through the intestines and broken down ...

A study found that ground beef protein resulted in more tracer amino acid absorbed as well as it being absorbed more quickly. Another study showed that people who retained more of their own teeth tended to have more muscle.

Eating lying down will slow down protein digestion and possibly re...

• Most food processing done today is for how it looks, and how convenient it becomes to process, ship, and consume as fast as possible.
• Packaging often costs ten times the food inside, as manufacturers know that how the outer packaging looks to the c...