138 Brain Food

The brain must be fed first!
It claims priority over all other parts.
All other parts.

Consider:
First you chew to mix saliva with your food. Then swallow.
The stomach breaks that food /saliva mixture into separate nutrients.
Then the proper nutrients go to the proper parts of the body.
All this takes time.
While your stomach breaks these down, none is getting to the brain!
So the brain still sends out hunger signals.
While you are eating. And eating. And eating.
Because you are ‘still’ hungry.

So take a sugar based appetizer 15 minutes before your meal. That goes to your brain within a couple of minutes. Your brain then sends ‘full’ signals to you.

Or eat very slowly. That also gives you time to get the first nutrients to the brain to trigger a full feeling.

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