As Americans, we tend to be a nation of gobblers when it comes to eating.  In other cultures, meals and conversation can run on into the evening, with family members enjoying conversation and sharing the news of the day.  On average, our meals last a whopping 11 minutes—and that's for dinner.  Breakfast and lunch clock in at under 5 minutes for some people. The good news is, to realize an abundance of health benefits all we need to do is slooooooow dooooooown.  And here are few good reasons why:

One of the best ways to enhance nutrition and improve your health is to bypass processed and pre-packaged foods in favor of fresh vegetables, fruits, grains and proteins. 

Many Americans are in a nutritional quandary.  On the one hand, frequently published studies and nutritional experts bombard us with the fact that we don't eat enough vegetables and fruit - the "good stuff" -  to provide proper nutrition; on the other, proponents of organic farming and anti-pesticide activists strive to alert us to the dangers of many of the chemical compounds that are used in commercial agriculture and conventional farming methods.