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Chew and spit (sometimes abbreviated as CHSP or CS) is a compensatory behavior associated with several eating disorders that involves chewing food and spitting it out before swallowing, often as an attempt to avoid ingesting unwanted or unnecessary calories. CS can be used as a way to taste food viewed as “forbidden” or unhealthy.
Shopping, preparing and cleaning up after a meal involves a lot of labor (and a fair amount of time). Plus, the potential for mealtime indecision is higher than ever, thanks to the countless ...
Premastication, pre-chewing, or kiss feeding is the act of chewing food for the purpose of physically breaking it down in order to feed another that is incapable of masticating the food by themselves. This is often done by the mother or relatives of a baby to produce baby food capable of being consumed by the child during the weaning process.
Like rumination syndrome, patients with gastroparesis often bring up food following the ingestion of a meal. Unlike rumination, gastroparesis causes vomiting (in contrast to regurgitation) of food, which is not being digested further, from the stomach. This vomiting occurs several hours after a meal is ingested, preceded by nausea and retching ...
When I was a kid, my babysitter, Edie, used to tell me to chew at least fifty times before swallowing. I always assumed that she did this because she was afraid that I would choke on some stray ...
Researchers at the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting and Expo discussed a recent study that shows when subjects chew almonds thoroughly, their body can absorb more of the ...
OMD refers to the abnormal resting posture of the orofacial musculature, atypical chewing, and swallowing patterns, dental malocclusions, blocked nasal airways, and speech problems. [2] OMD are patterns involving oral and/or orofacial musculature that interferes with normal growth, development, or function of structures, or calls attention to ...
Nutrition psychology is the psychological study of the relationship between dietary intake and different aspects of psychological health. It is an applied field that uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine the influence of diet on mental health. [1]