新加坡的一个研究团队,对11名可灵活运用筷子、勺子和用手抓饭吃的民众展开的一项调查发现,用筷子吃饭有助于降低升糖指数。研究人员认为,这是因为用筷子吃饭,所能夹起的米粒会比用手或用勺子拿起的米粒少,因此参与咀嚼得也较少。最重要的是,用筷子吃饭拉长了用餐时间。试验发现:以一碗正常大小的米饭为例,用筷子平均要吃43口才能吃完,而用手或勺子则分别是17口与20口,花较 A research team in Singapore conducted a survey of 11 people who could flexibly use chopsticks, spoons and hand-grabbing meals and found that eating with chopsticks helped to lower the glycemic index. Researchers think this is because eating with chopsticks will make fewer grains of rice picked up than if they were picked up by hand or with a spoon, so chewing is less involved. The most important thing is that eating with chopsticks lengthens the meal time. Test found that: a bowl of normal size rice, for example, with an average of 43 eat chopsticks can be eaten, while the hands or spoons are respectively 17 and 20, compared with flowers