Life is getting faster and we demand it so. We want fast internet, fast restaurant service, fast answers, fast weight loss. We think that if we go faster, we’ll get more done and better results. This may well be true if you are an athlete! but when it comes to eating, fast in fact slows things down. The reality is that eating quickly is a stressor on the body. By eating fast and not chewing properly, we elicit the same powerful physiological stress response that triggers figh