{"id":19192,"date":"2024-10-14T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodmedcenter.org\/?p=19192"},"modified":"2024-10-14T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T20:24:54","slug":"study-spotlight-take-away-with-chef-dr-mike-chews-wisely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodmedcenter.org\/es_pr\/study-spotlight-take-away-with-chef-dr-mike-chews-wisely\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Spotlight Take-Away with Chef Dr. Mike: Chews Wisely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cIf you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way, we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Thich Nhat Hanh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Mindful eating techniques and food-based gratitude exercises, such as those described by the renowned Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, can be found in many spiritual practices across the globe. This connection between the food we eat and human spirituality extends backward in time to the forebears of our\u00a0Homo sapiens sapiens\u00a0<\/em>ancestors, who first appeared roughly 300,000 years ago. Both the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis<\/em>), who existed as far back as 400,000 years ago,<\/span> and\u00a0Homo naledi<\/em>, who lived as far back as 335,000 years ago, displayed possible intentional burial practices that included placing valuable food items alongside their dead. This month, in a few short weeks, many of us will enjoy the annual autumn celebration of Halloween. This originates in the ancient Celtic Festival of Samhain, which focused on the supernatural and death. In our modern version, we replace the carved beets, turnips, and other humble \u2013 but natural \u2013 food offerings with a big sack of ultra-processed sweeties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s Study Spotlight focuses on a small but important study that lightly touches on this tradition in a timely manner. Small in the sense that the study only observes nine overweight\/obese Japanese men. Important in the sense that, in many ways, it confirms the findings of Kevin Hall\u2019s earlier seminal study. In Hall\u2019s previous work, a group of 20 participants consumed two diets for two weeks in which the only difference was the ultra-processing. During the consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), the participants gained approximately 1 kg, which they lost when they stopped eating the UPFs[1].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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