Eat Slower and You’ll Eat Less
Thu, October 2, 2008 at 02:00AM Your mother probably told you “Don’t rush your meal”, or “Don’t eat so quickly”. And it seems it was good advice, given the present-day epidemic of overweight and obesity. Eating more slowly really does mean you’re likely to eat less. A study reported in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association from the University of Rhode Island shows this is the case, anyway.
Thirty healthy women of average age 22 were examined at two separate visits. At one visit, they were given a soup spoon and requested to eat as fast as possible. At the other, they had a smaller spoon, and they were asked to take smaller bites, put down the spoon between each bite, and chew each bite 20 to 30 times. The quick and slow eating visits were undertaken in random order. The slow meals took 29 minutes on average, the quick meals 9 minute.
The women reported that they felt fuller after eating slowly. But in fact they consumed more calories with the quick meal – 645 vs. 580 calories with the slow meal.
Bottom line: eat slowly, if you can learn to. You will consume fewer calories, feel just as satisfied, and have longer for some enjoyable conversation, we hope. You might even lose weight!
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