How to Improve Digestion, Assimilation and Calorie Burning with Marc David

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These days, it seems like everyone is addicted to speed. We want our internet fast, our meals faster, and if we're trying to lose weight, we want it gone yesterday. So it's not surprising that most people think the faster we live our lives, the faster we'll burn calories. But as Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating, explains in this fascinating new video from IPEtv, nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, to truly activate our digestive power and receive maximum nourishment from the food we eat, it's vital that we learn how to slow down. If you can break the speed habit, you'll see immediate improvement in both your physical well being and your enjoyment of life. Tune in to learn how "the power of slow" can take your metabolism to a whole new level!

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Greetings friends, this is Marc David, founder of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating.

Today’s Topic: The Metabolic Power of Slow

More specifically – I’m going to share with you how the literal act of slowing down can be a powerful metabolic enhancer. I know this may sound counterintuitive – which is why few people adopt this life-changing practice. But I’ll say to you that once you incorporate this practice of slow into your daily world, you’ll never look back.

So many people want to increase their metabolism. They want to calorie-burn better, they want more energy, a stronger immune system and more powerful digestion. So it’s logical to assume in order to have these things that we need to push harder. We need to work more, we need to move faster, we need to get all pumped up and we need to push the pedal to the metal.

Oddly enough, nothing can be further from the truth.

A bunch of years ago I wrote what many people consider to be a game changing book in the nutrition and eating psychology field – The Slow Down Diet. The book covers a lot of ground and is a very fascinating read, and one of the key concepts I introduced at the beginning was all about slowing down, and how this is a very powerful remedy for so many of our nutrition-related health challenges, symptoms, dis-eases, and eating concerns such as overeating, binge eating, emotional eating, and any unwanted eating habit.

What strikes me today is how the message of the metabolic power of slow is more important than it ever was.

Oftentimes, so much of what ails us as a nation and as a world can be best understood when we look at some of the bigger forces that move us. More and more, the world is addicted to speed. We like fast Internet, fast cars, fast service at the restaurant, fast money, fast weight loss – you name it, and we don’t have the time to wait.

And this love affair with speed is killing us.

When it comes food and the body, our high-speed living creates some tremendous disadvantages:

Most importantly, we eat too fast. On average, if I poll a room of 100 people and ask, “How many of you are fast eaters, how many are moderate eaters, and how many are slow eaters?” … about 70% of people consider themselves fast eaters, 25% are moderate, and 5% are the slow ones.

Fast eating is considered a stressor by the body. Meaning, it’s not natural, it doesn’t work, the body doesn’t like this behavior.

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