The Healthy Life

Is this the weirdest diet tip ever?

By Vanessa Milne | Chatelaine – Tue, 9 Aug, 2011

A new study suggests that chewing your food - to be exact, chewing each mouthful 40 times! - will make you eat 12 percent less and feel fuller.

While this exact prescription might be a little over the top, the science behind it is interesting: Researchers asked young men to chew their food 15 times or 40, and found that chewing more resulted in lowered levels of ghrelin, an appetite stimulant, and raised levels of CCK, a hormone that suppressed appetite.