This video explains why should we eat with our hands and should stop using spoons or forks or chopsticks for eating. There are many benefits of eating with hands. This video explains 6 reasons and benefits of eating food with your hands. After watching the video you will understand why do some cultures eat with their hands.
Do you eat with spoons and consider eating food with your hands as old-fashioned? If yes, then you need to watch this video.
After seeing a large number of benefits of eating with your hands, you will avoid using spoons.
Here I will discuss various health benefits of eating food with your hands.
In India, Africa and Middle East; it is a common practice to eat with hands but in modern times many people consider it as old-fashioned.
But here are 6 scientific reasons to support the practice of eating with hands.
Let's discuss all of these one by one-

1. It stimulates the secretion of digestive juices and enzymes
There are millions of nerve endings in our fingers, so when we touch the food with our fingers while handling it, we can feel the temperature, texture, softness and spiciness of the food. Hence our body gets ready to digest the food in advance before eating it and our body releases digestive juices and enzymes, which are very helpful in improving the digestion.
Obviously we cannot get these benefits when we use spoons, forks or sticks to eat our food.

2.Healthy bacteria enter into our bodies through our hands
A bacteria known as normal flora is found on the palm and fingers of our hands. This bacteria is responsible for protecting us from different types of harmful microbes that are present in our environment.
It is beneficial for various body parts like mouth, throat and intestine. When we eat food with our hands, these healthy bacteria are swallowed along with the food. After going inside our body, they help in digestion of the food. This is another reason to support why we should eat with our hands.

3. It reduces the chances of developing type-2 diabetes.
According to a new study published in the journal clinical nutrition - Eating food faster causes blood sugar imbalance in the body which may be responsible for the development of type-2 diabetes.
As we have already discussed, People who use forks and spoons for eating; tend to be fast eaters in comparison to who eat with hands.
This means eating with hands will promote a good habit of eating slower which will help in reducing the chances of developing type-2 diabetes.

4. Our Hands are designed perfectly for handling different types of foods
Our hands and fingers have evolved perfectly for handling different types of stuff. It is very easy to use our fingers and thumb to pick minute to large food stuff.
You can pick very small sized things like a grain of rice to a large glass full of water.
Using our hands and fingers, we can tear, scratch, peel, break, hold and pick our food stuff depending on the type of food and our requirements. We can sense the softness or hardness of the food and even hold water in our palms.
So our hands are perfectly suitable for handling different types of food which is obviously not possible and convenient using forks, spoons or sticks.
Although it is recommended to use utensils for eating hot foods and liquids. But usually eating too hot foods not possible to be handled with hands is also not recommended.

5. We eat less and get more satisfaction and fullness
It has been found in researches that eating with hands offers benefits of more satisfaction and fullness in comparison to eating with spoons.
According to the studies published in the journal Appetite, when people eat by hands while reading a newspaper or watching TV, they tend to eat less during Snack time.

6. We are more conscious of the eating process
When we eat using our hands, we feel the food in a better way as more senses are involved in the process. Because of this we tend to eat slower as we are more aware of the food while eating. This helps in better digestion of the food.
We are also more aware of the size of the bite because fingers and better presence of mind is involved in choosing the correct bite size. It further helps in eating less or right quantity of food.
So friends after knowing so many benefits of using hands for eating, I hope you would avoid using spoons as much as possible and eat with your hands proudly.

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