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April 17, 2013 05:00 pm GMT
Modern day eating habits are making us fat, stupid, and sick. Even for those high-octane health-nuts with the discipline to have a salad, rapid eating between meetings can cause weight gain, brain fog, illness, and fatigue. Now, a high-tech fork has bottled the “don’t eat so fast” wisdom of our mothers in an everyday object that buzzes whenever it detects users eating too quickly. While much has been written about the HAPIfork, no writers had taken it for a test run. After only a few minutes reviewing the HAPIfork, it retrained my overly anxious subconscious eating habits to take more time in between bites. Two Problems With Eating Too Quickly The body was not meant to shovel down huge mountains of food. Normally, nutrition slowly disperses into the bloodstream; when the body is overloaded with food, it has to reroute the resources of the mind and body to dealing with an incoming meal. 1. Overeating – Our brains don’t trigger a sense of fullness until well into a meal. In one study, those who finished a meal in 9 minutes, rather than 29 minutes, ate 67 more calories–that translates into about 1400 extra calories/week, or about half a pound of weight gain. 2. Blood Sugar, Diabetes, And The Mind – Eating quickly is the surest way to drown your productivity in brain fog. Slow eating levels out the amount of sugar in the blood stream. An hour and half minutes after my HAPIfork meal, my blood sugar was a cool 97 mg/dl (as measured by an over-the-counter blood glucose monitor). In the past, I’ve noticed that a blood sugar of 110 mg/dl is enough to either put me to sleep or put me into a daze (fast eating can spike my blood sugar into the +110 range). Another bonus of eating too quickly: all that extra blood sugar may increase the likelihood of getting diabetes. The Experience The device itself is a rumble pack encased in a thick-handled fork. HAPIfork delivers a moderately delightful buzz whenever it comes in contact with the skin, should individuals take bites faster than user-defined time intervals. I tested out a reasonable setting of 10 seconds in between bites, which was difficult for my naturally fast-eating ways. It only took a few rumbles of my mouth to slow me down. By the end of the meal, I began to unconsciously place my fork into a
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Eating Fast Is Destroying Your Body. The HAPIfork's Buzz Can Help
Modern day eating habits are making us fat, stupid, and sick. Even for those high-octane health-nuts with the discipline to have a salad, rapid eating between meetings can cause weight gain, brain fog, illness, and fatigue. Now, a high-tech fork has bottled the “don’t eat so fast” wisdom of our mothers in an everyday object that buzzes whenever it detects users eating too quickly. While much has been written about the HAPIfork, no writers had taken it for a test run. After only a few minutes reviewing the HAPIfork, it retrained my overly anxious subconscious eating habits to take more time in between bites. Two Problems With Eating Too Quickly The body was not meant to shovel down huge mountains of food. Normally, nutrition slowly disperses into the bloodstream; when the body is overloaded with food, it has to reroute the resources of the mind and body to dealing with an incoming meal. 1. Overeating – Our brains don’t trigger a sense of fullness until well into a meal. In one study, those who finished a meal in 9 minutes, rather than 29 minutes, ate 67 more calories–that translates into about 1400 extra calories/week, or about half a pound of weight gain. 2. Blood Sugar, Diabetes, And The Mind – Eating quickly is the surest way to drown your productivity in brain fog. Slow eating levels out the amount of sugar in the blood stream. An hour and half minutes after my HAPIfork meal, my blood sugar was a cool 97 mg/dl (as measured by an over-the-counter blood glucose monitor). In the past, I’ve noticed that a blood sugar of 110 mg/dl is enough to either put me to sleep or put me into a daze (fast eating can spike my blood sugar into the +110 range). Another bonus of eating too quickly: all that extra blood sugar may increase the likelihood of getting diabetes. The Experience The device itself is a rumble pack encased in a thick-handled fork. HAPIfork delivers a moderately delightful buzz whenever it comes in contact with the skin, should individuals take bites faster than user-defined time intervals. I tested out a reasonable setting of 10 seconds in between bites, which was difficult for my naturally fast-eating ways. It only took a few rumbles of my mouth to slow me down. By the end of the meal, I began to unconsciously place my fork into aOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/F0zBweKDS34/
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