JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Unwittingly, how to chew food will have an impact on body health. Including the risk of obesity.
Practitioners who attend Kyushoku (Learning lunch at school) Japan, Naomi Aiba, said, for the sake of enjoying food, needs to chew properly.
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“If you don’t chew food properly, you won’t be able to enjoy the delicacy of the food,” Naomi said in a seminar titled “Shokuiku: nutrition and education“In Jakarta, Thursday (2/13/2025).
Naomi suggested that at least 30 bite or chewing in one minute when eating food.
Chew food at least 30 times in one minute, helping food more easily swallowed and digested by organs in the body.
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Besides enjoying more food, chewing food properly is also useful for avoiding obesity.
Nutrition experts from the Department of Nutrition and Life Science Kanagawa Institute of Technology, as well as practitioners who attended Kyushoku (studying lunch at school) in Japan, Naomi Aiba
“People who eat fast without chewing properly, have a higher level of obesity,” Naomi said.
Especially in school -age children. Children in the period of permanent tooth development, need to know how to chew properly.
Because, the ability to chew and swallow during childhood will have an impact on adulthood.
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“So, the school is trying to improve how to chew them. We design special music to help regulate the rhythm of chewing children at school,” Naomi said.
Before increasingly modern times, said Naomi, not everyone had the knowledge of how to chew food.
The level of obesity is also higher, given the food texture that mostly feels hard.
“Advances in food processing and cooking technology, produce the emergence of foods that are more easily consumed, while creating an environment where we can eat food without chewing,” he concluded.
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