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[Immunity UP information] Food education that thinks from the mouth (XNUMX)

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We will introduce excerpts from past musubi magazines and books published by Seishoku Publishing.
The 26th installment will introduce an article on food education from the "Musubi Magazine October 6 issue". (12 times in total).
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Chewing well means living well　Importance of the mouth, not just the teeth
　Finally, about "chewing well".
　As we have seen, the mouth is not just the teeth, but also the tongue, jaw, lips, etc., each of which has its own proper function. It turns out that it will be a mouth with a mouth.
　And I think that they understood that it is better to start working on it while they are still babies.
　On top of that, I would like to reconsider "chewing well", which is also emphasized in macrobiotics.

It is also effective to cut ingredients into large pieces
　Even if you know that it is good to "chew well", it is difficult to actually do it.
　Therefore, Mr. Okazaki suggests cutting the ingredients into large pieces.
　When Mr. Okazaki actually measured the number of times he chewed himself, he found that raw carrots (20gram) was XNUMX times when chopped, but increased to XNUMX times when shredded, and XNUMX times when made into sticks, more than twice as chopped.
　"Even if it's curry or miso soup, it's good to have bigger ingredients."
　It also seems to be related to the amount of water in the food.
　Next, Okazaki compared the number of bites of sandwiches containing eggs and ham.
　Bread without ear = XNUMX times ▽ With ear = XNUMX times ▽ Bread without ear = XNUMX times ▽ Bread with ear = XNUMX
　Just as you chew an apple more often when it has a skin on it, you will also chew hard bread with a crust. In order not to damage the

Enough hand feeding
　In relation to chewing, Okazaki encourages children to eat with their hands.
　When you hold something in your mouth, you breathe through your nose.I am learning to breathe through my nose.
　Also, if you hold a quartered apple in your hand and bite into it, then you will try to eat the side of the bite.
　By accumulating such learning, they will be able to control three-dimensional hand movements, such as scooping up juice with a spoon and putting it in their mouth, or brushing their teeth with a toothbrush.
　If you can learn the proper bite size, you will not be choking on food.

It is important to make you feel hungry
　Some of them can chew properly, but there are "children who don't chew".
　Therefore, Mr. Okazaki quoted Maslow's hierarchy of needs and added an explanation.
　According to Maslow, in order to achieve the ultimate goal of self-actualization, the first need, the basic need, must be met.Instinctive desires such as eating, sleeping, and excretion.
　“Children who have never been hungry since childhood are actually deprived of this basic need,” says Okazaki.
　A “child who does not chew” is a child who has never been hungry and has no “motivation to eat” and has a low “motivation to live”.
　Therefore, Mr. Okazaki preached, "It is important to give a feeling of hunger."

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Yoshihide Okazaki
Born in Osaka in 1952.He graduated from Aichi Gakuin University School of Dentistry.After graduating from the Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Osaka University, he has been a lecturer in Pediatric Dentistry at the Okayama Gakuin University Faculty of Dentistry Hospital since 84. In 2013, he took an early retirement from Okayama University and became a visiting professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, National Mongolian Medical University.His specialties are pediatric dentistry, dentistry for disabled children, and health education.His publications include “30 years old in 107 bites of Kamikami Health Science” (Shonen Shashin Shimbunsha) and “Food Education Wonderland Seen by a Cam-Cam Encyclopedia Dentist” (Higashiyama Shobo).