How to Eat: “Slow” Principle To prevent cancer, the last part of eating should also follow a principle – “slow”. Experts point out that eating slowly has three major benefits for cancer prevention. 1, chewing and swallowing slowly reduces carcinogenic substances. Yang Li, professor of China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, said that human saliva contains peroxidase, catalase and vitamin C, which not only has antioxidant effect, but also can decompose carcinogenic substances into the oral cavity, effectively reducing the incidence of cancer. U.S. research has confirmed that when nitrite compounds, aflatoxin and other strong carcinogens encounter saliva, cell mutagenicity will be completely lost within 30 seconds. From this point of view, the pace of meals should not be too fast, chewing and slow swallowing helps saliva to play the anti-cancer effect, a mouthful of food chewing 30 before swallowing the best. 2. Eliminate high temperature to prevent esophageal cancer. Xun Xiaolin pointed out that people who eat too fast and too quickly tend to eat too hot, and over time, the stimulation of high-temperature diet will make the oral mucosa, esophagus and gastric mucosa break frequently, and even ulcerate and bleed, thus inducing cancer. Data show that among esophageal cancer patients, those who usually prefer hot food and hot drinks account for more than 90%. Therefore, we must slow down the meal, wait for the food to cool down a bit, preferably to about 40 degrees Celsius before eating. 3, control the amount of food can also prevent cancer. “Only by eating slowly can you feel your hunger subside and your stomach gradually fill up, and then put down your chopsticks at the right time to ensure that you are seven minutes full.” Fan Zhihong, an associate professor at the School of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering at China Agricultural University, said that if you see food is a meal to wolf down, it is often easy to overeat, bringing great digestive pressure to the stomach and intestines. Japanese research shows that always eat too full, will reduce the ability to inhibit the activity of cellular cancer factor, increasing the risk of cancer. Therefore, when eating, adhere to the principle of “slow” on the prevention of cancer is very beneficial.