GUIDE TO EATING:
Step 1: Open mouth
In order to successfuly eat, this step is absolutely necessary. Remember, in order for food to enter your body, you must allow it to enter the mouth first.
Step 2: Place food in mouth
Hold a small or moderate sized amount of food adjacent to your open mouth. Proceed to push the food in the direction of your mouth until it is completely in. Proceed to close your mouth.
Some foods may require you to bite pieces off of a larger amount of food. This is acceptable as long as you only bite off small or moderate portions.
Step 3: Chew food thoroughly
Ignoring this step can lead to unnecessary problems, so never forget to chew. Incomplete chewing or attempting to swallow large pieces of food is one of the primary causes of choking.
Any object that winds up in the airway will become stuck as the airway narrows. Many large objects get stuck just inside the trachea at the vocal cords.
Doctors also advise chewing thoroughly in order to minimize the risk of digestive problems such as bloating, gas, and stomach discomfort.
Step 4: Swallow food
After you have completed steps one, two, and three, it's time to let the food into your body and allow it to be digested.
Swallowing is a complex process. Some 50 pairs of muscles and many nerves work to move food from the mouth to the stomach. This happens in three stages. First, the tongue moves the food around in the mouth for chewing. Chewing makes the food the right size to swallow and helps mix the food with saliva. Saliva softens and moistens the food to make swallowing easier. During this first stage, the tongue collects the prepared food or liquid, making it ready for swallowing.
The second stage begins when the tongue pushes the food or liquid to the back of the mouth, which triggers a swallowing reflex that passes the food through the pharynx (the canal that connects the mouth with the esophagus). During this stage, the larynx (voice box) closes tightly and breathing stops to prevent food or liquid from entering the lungs.
The third stage begins when food or liquid enters the esophagus, the canal that carries food and liquid to the stomach. This passage through the esophagus usually occurs in about 3 seconds, depending on the texture or consistency of the food.
Talking or laughing while eating may cause a piece of food to "go down the wrong pipe." Normal swallowing mechanisms may be slowed if a person has been drinking alcohol or taking drugs.
All sarcasm aside, just eat like a normal person. If you aren't a slob and don't do anything that stands out as extremely awkward when you eat, then you shouldn't have any problems.
If a girl is already attracted to you, I doubt your eating speed is going to make much of an impact. Besides, if a girl focuses on this kind of stuff in the first place, she's probably a little messed up in the head.
As Fatality said, this is overanalyzing.
well i do not know how much truth there is in this, but personaly i would have thought some one who eats slowly would be associated as some one who is sensative, now obviously girls dont want a slob, but is there any reaosn to 'eat as if you are making love to her' as the artice i read put it? what do you guys think about this?
