3. It intensifies sensual connection with food
If you have ever observed, when you eat Indian food (daal and rice) with hands, you feel an unsaid connection with the food, that lacks with fork and spoon. According to Luke Coutinho, a holistic nutritionist, author and exercise physiologist, "Eating with your fingers helps in establishing a connection with what you are eating and therefore, you eat mindfully."
4. Better digestion
As per Ayurvedic texts, as the fingers put the food in the mouth, you unknowingly, curve them to form a yogic mudra, that activates the sensory organs that keep prana in balance. Your food is digested well because when the hand touches the food, the nerves on the finger tips experience it and then send signals to the brain which instructs the body to release digestive juices. Perhaps this is why food tastes better when eaten with hands.
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