Benefits of eating with hands - Dr. Mini Nair

Eating with washed hands is one of the tradition practices and just as how important the site of the food, so also is the texture of the food. Interaction of the food with the hands on the lips gives strong signals to the brain and this inturn prepares our stomach to receive the food for digestion. There are lot of health benefits mentioned in various text books of Ayurveda. Eating with hands requires the presence of the presence of mind and contributes to what is called as the mindful eating. We need to know what we are eating. So the concentration will be definitely on the food. There are also other benefits where we Indians are used to eating on the plantain leaf and most of the food are in the form of solids, semi solids, liquids, sometimes combination of food is made or in some cases the food has to be smashed before we eat and such things are possible only wit hands and not possible sometimes with cutlery like fork, spoon and knife. There are other things like when we touch our food, we also know the temperature of the food. When we eat with the spoon, there are chances that your buccal mucosa or the mucosa lining of your oral cavity is likely to be burned. So the temperature is assessed before you eat the food. There are various benefits also like the fingers are the extension of the basic 5 elements called the panchamahabhota. So for example the thumb is the extension of akasha, then index finger is the extension of the vayu, the middle finger is the extension of agni. The ring finger is the extension of water, the little finger is the extension of earth. So to balance the 5 elements in the body, all the fingers interaction with the food actually brings out this balance and this helps us to taste the food, digest it and then assimilate into our system.

[hollythomason]

I noticed that since I have changed my diet dramatically and started to eat more whole foods and being more mindful when eating that I really enjoy taking my time and eating with my hands more somehow just felt more natural. I knew when she explained about the sense of touch being part of the experience, that she had hit the nail on the head. Thanks

[LaPetite]

I'm Senegalese & we still eat mostly w/our hands. I find that food tastes much better when I use my hands VS utensils. It's such a great sensory experience!
Never put much thought into its benefits. Thank You for informing us...

[rbebler]

I'm part filipino, from America, but I learned of eating with my hand from watching my mother. 😂 and it is a traditional filipino way of eating. Not all, but many still eat this way. Food tastes better, more enjoyable.

[sonalathakur]

Very interesting information. Just to correct a small thing -The thumb represents Agni and middle finger represents aakash.

[savagekid]

I am from Guyana and we eat with our hands well some people

[jyotisat]

Ma’am, Very beautifully you have explained the benefits of eating with hands🙏🙏🙏💐

[Humari_Dharohar]

Panchmahabhoota as pet each finger is wrong in the video...thumb represent Agni...index finger vayu, middle finger Aakash, ring finger Aakash and little finger represents water..

[samirkadd]

but my employer said eating by hands is very dirty even 10 times of washing. im so upset when she said and telling me after seeing eating by hands she cant sleep all night

[umamehra]

No.. Thumb is Agni, index finger is Vayu, middle is Akash, ring prithvi, little finger Jala

[sinistor]

Somewhere
Shopkeeper : We are running out of spoom
Me, a man of culture : I don’t see a part, where that’s my problem

[sdgaming]

Give a tightslap to whom who thought eating with hands is disgusted

[rexgeorg]

you are a wise lady
five elements interesting

[startupsitynewswhynotshow]

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Look at how chefs are presenting their meals and you will see the difference in presentation. Show in videos that show food products eatten by hand they we wash out hands thoroughly And not just from the streets into the food, don't assume that they should know better.

People use cutleries not because they are convinient but because food is hot, food is messy

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Japanise chefs who make sushi with hands are always with a white towel wiping off their hands and always washing their hands from contaminants.

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Restaurant people need to understand that less is more even if people want to see full plates there is a way to present it.

Try the art of Japanise serving style on a plate for African foods and have fun talking about it as a promotion of the food culture if you like it.

There are certain foods you can't eat without a spoon they is soups like the African pepersoup and you can eat salads without s fork, you can eat certain salads with spoon but some chopsticks can be convinient.

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[youngcho]

Even in America there are certain foods that are eaten by hand. I think the difference is poverty. 3rd world usually eats by hand no matter what.

[sdkid]

Nasty, that's why your restaurants are so disgustingly filthy.
Food and germs get all over the place, chairs, tables, the doors, everywhere. Gross.

[Enmanuel-c]

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