Combat Glitches with the new update

So I just played the new update and noticed some glitches with combat. The first is when I eat food normally during a battle, occasionally the health increase doesn't register. I go to check and my food is uneaten. This may not be a glitch and may just be a new way of cancelling food eating (sprinting maybe?), but when I see the food get eaten and then it reappears I get thrown off guard.
Secondly and more importantly, a change with the sword. This glitch was actually present a few days before the update, probably because of some patch or something. Essentially, when I am fighting in sword combat and go to block, the game registers that I've blocked, and can sidestep, as well as walk slower, but my sword remains at my side. This has allowed enemies to hit me even when I'm "blocking". I've died several times to this and it is a very annoying but that I hope gets fixed.