do we still need to chew our food 32 times?

Answer 1

No. LOL

The idea is to chew your food THOROUGHLY, which only means that you break it down sufficiently enough to 1. mix the food with the saliva in your mouth, 2. mash it up to make swallowing and digestion easier -- but most of all
Chewing stimulates the production of saliva and saliva, while majorily water, also has needed proteins and other enzymes that help break down food compounds for further digestion and allows for proper nutrient absorption. :)

Basically, digestion starts in your mouth so use your chompers well!

Answer 2

Horace Fletcher, a San Francisco art dealer, became known as "the Great Masticator" for advocating chewing each bite at least 32 times and turning solid food into liquid gruel. Novelist Henry James became an enthusiast, and a Yale professor conducted tests and concluded that "Fletcherizing" provided subjects with 50 percent greater overall muscular endurance and cured them of the desire to abuse alcohol. If only it were that easy. Certainly chewing is essential for proper digestion and nutrient absorption, but Fletcherizing falls under the obsessive-behavior category.
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1608/is_3_19/ai_97390095
The more important factor in ability to properly chew your food is the position of the teeth to each other and how the teeth from the upper and lower jaw come together (occlusion). People with properly shaped teeth need to chew their food less times than people with worn down teeth that have more sideway chew.
http://www.drsamsavar.com/html/gallery.html

Answer 3

The more you chew the less you eat.The easier it is for your stomach to digest

Answer 4

no, no, no. chew until you think it's safe to swallow. this doesn't mean to wolf and hoof it down and be humpty dumpty with it,but to just be cautious

Answer 5

not if you bite less food at once