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The one diet tip every man should know
Do you wolf down meals to get on with more important things in life?
By eating more slowly you’ll enjoy your food more, eat less and make healthier choices. (Thinking about what we’ve already eaten also helps us make healthier choices.) Sit down at a table, even if on your own. It helps you appreciate your food and see how much you’ve eaten.
You mean: don't change what you eat, change how you eat?
Distractions like TV, phone surfing or reading can mean you eat more without realising - yet feel less satisfied by your meal.
Notice what you’re eating and how it tastes. Chew more slowly and thoroughly.
Try putting your fork down between mouthfuls, using smaller cutlery, eating with your non-dominant hand (left if you normally hold your spoon in the right) or even eating with chopsticks to slow things down.
Really?
Yes, research shows mindfulness - or being aware of what you’re doing and feeling in the moment that you’re doing and feeling it - reduces stress and blood pressure and helps digestion and weight loss.
An example of the evidence?
Two groups of men were asked to chew each mouthful of pizza either 15 or 40 times before swallowing. Three hours later, those who chewed 40 times were much less hungry and less interested in eating. Their blood sugar and hormone levels suggested that chewing more may make you feel fuller and improve the way your body absorbs nutrients.
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| This content is wholly based on the Men's Health Forum's man manual Eat. Drink. Don't Diet. which was prepared in line with the NHS England Information Standard of which the MHF is a member. Follow the links for more information or to buy copies. |
Date published
19/06/15
Date of last review
28/02/15
Date of next review
28/02/18
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The Men’s Health Forum need your support It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking. In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to. It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for. We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing. Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.
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