Drink Your Food and Eat Your Drink “The faster you eat, the more
likely you are to overeat.” Gandhi once said that "we should
drink our food and eat our drink". What he was saying is take
time and chew your food and take small sips of water. In
general, people tend to eat too much, too fast and for all the
wrong reasons. You won't get sunk by bad eating habits if you
take the time to understand what you're doing wrong. It takes
time for the body to tell the brain that it 's full. So the
faster you eat, the less likely you are to feel satiated, and
the more likely you are to overeat. Slowing down and learning to
pace yourself, will almost certainly result in fewer calories
being consumed, says Edward Abramson, Ph.D., professor of
psychology at California State University in Chico, and author
of To Have and to Hold: How to Take off the Weight When Marriage
Puts on the Pounds (Kensington Books, 1999). - If you're eating
because you're ravenously hungry, drink a glass of water before
you start to eat," advises Jo