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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
You ever eat so fast that you get hiccups from just, like inhaling the meal or you bite your cheek or your tongue cause you mistook it for food?
Yeah, I've done it.
And that's horrible because once you bit your tongue or part of your side.
Of your mouth, you get a canker.
Sore and it's going to just really disrupt your eating throughout the next days.
Right.
So that's no fun.
That's Lillian Chung.
She's a lecturer on nutrition and the director of mindfulness research and practice at Harvard University.
Other signs you're eating too fast.
You may get heartburn and just discomfort.
Or later on you might feel still hungry and want to eat more despite.
Of the fact that you thought you ate already.
There are a lot of reasons we scarf down our food.
Tight deadlines, short lunch breaks.
Also, the great american virtue of productivity.
That'S infiltrated every part of our lives.
Like, let me hurry up and eat so I can run more errands.