Eat Harmoniously with Your Digestive System

The diagram at the right is a simplistic model of a big part of your body: Your Digestive System. We can model it as a series of valves separating processing chambers.

It is largely automatic, except for the first and last valve and your mouth and epiglottis. (Some argue that even these are not under much control in some people.) Have you ever noticed how you can't help but swallow if you put food far enough back in your mouth?

As your food is swallowed, the rest of the system is completely automatic, and surprisingly consistent. Food (now called "chyme") is moved from your stomach at the pace of about 20 seconds per movement, discharging up to a teaspoon of chyme from your stomach. This valve (the pyloric sphincter) opens at this rate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whether you've recently eaten or not.

If you eat very fast, food must collect in your stomach because it can only exit slowly. If you eat in a paced manner using SlimSmart, you will find that your stomach can process the food before much more is put in. Over time (about two weeks) you will find that eatng fast will become uncomfortable because your body has adjusted to the new rate.

Bottomline: SlimSmart helps you match your natural pacing of your digestive system.