Sorry, I lost track of who wrote this:
> And the toughness issue?  Have I just been eating too easily chewed
> food until now and have to build up the right muscles?

Ardeith writes:
A couple of thoughts......my mother always bought
round steak because it was so cheap.....this is back
in the 1950's, folks........so I always thought steak
was "supposed" to be that tough and chewy.   It wasn't
until I began to date, and was taken to a fancy
restaurant that I experienced tender steak.....Nowadays,
I'd rather stay home and cook my own sirloin steak
the way I want it.......if I go out, I want seafood.
My mother never learned how to take a tough piece of
beef and turn it succulent in a pot-roast, either.

As for "easily chewed food"......consider most
of the 'starchy' foods that are so carb rich......
pasta, rice, potatoes, cooked dried beans,
cooked vegetables of all sorts..................
None of these require much in the way of
chewing.....my grandson seems to just inhale
spaghetti or macaroni and cheese.    No
chewing required.    And it's so easy to eat
far too much of something if you don't have
to chew enough to trigger that "enough"
response in the brain.

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