You don’t need to spend a fortune on cosmetics, lotions, potions and beauty treatments at parlours for a glowing and fair skin. According to a PGI study, all you need to do is eat the right food and at leisure. This will also save you a trip to the ‘slimming centres’ as weight loss, too, is a part of the package.

The study by Dr Yash Paul, head of the cardiology department at the PGI, says a balanced meal eaten very slowly, where a great deal of time is spent on chewing the food properly, can actually bring a glow on the face, apart from helping in a significant weight loss.

Calling it the “Yash India technique”, Dr Paul says the findings

are a part of his five-year study of over 1,000 patients of coronary heart diseases.

The research has been given a copyright by the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD). Dr Paul claims that an international patent to the findings is on its way.

According to the technique, one should take 15 to 50 minutes to consume one meal, complete

with breads, cereals, cooked vegetables and salads, with at least 10 minutes dedicated to eating just half a chapati.

The idea is to spend excessive time on chewing and cutting the food size to bare minimum, to ensure there is no overeating, says Dr Paul.

The doctor believes that if 15 to 20 minutes are spent on eating one chapati, the satiety levels will be achieved even with a reduced meal size. The technique, he says, works on the principle of eating with “brain signals” where the timings

of the signals are sent and received by the satiety and hunger centres of the brain without any external medication.

“If the eating time is controlled, the satiety centre suppresses the hunger centre in the brain that gives satiety,” notes the study.

Explaining how fairness and skin texture are linked to the time taken in eating a meal, Dr Yash Paul says: “This technique of eating results in better control of Alpha Melanocyte Stimulating Hormone and Malonyl COA expression, thus reducing the stress hormones in the body, which in turn leads lesser darkening or decreased melanin deposition in the body.”

The patients who followed the dietary changes got a clearer and fairer complexion in two to three months, he says.

The ‘Yash India technique’