Good Reasons For Obesity: Eat Fast And Until Full

Posted on October 30th, 2009.

Eating fast and eating until full are a bad combo, no matter how you look at it. One of the leading reasons for obesity is the super deadly combo of increased calorie intake and scarfing your food down.

Eating habits have changed over the last decade or so. Fast food is more prevalent, portion sizes have gotten larger and increased processed food choices are available. With many living a gadget engaged life (watching TV, texting etc), the attention paid to eating is scant and on the decline.

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Researchers in Japan enrolled over three thousand Japanese women and men, aged 30 – 69, between 2003 and 2006 to investigate weather speed of eating and eating until full were viable reasons for obesity. Candidates participated via questionnaires about their eating habits.
“The researchers report that around half (50.9%) of the men and just over half (58.4%) of the women said they ate until they were full. And just under half (45.6%) of men and 36% of women said they ate quickly.” http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021210307.htm

What they found was if you eat until full and you eat quickly, you would have a higher BMI and total calorie intake than if you did not eat quicky and until full. Researchers concluded that those who engaged in such eating habits, had three times the likelihood of being overweight. Yes, add this to the list of viable reasons for obesity.

I have heard that chewing your food 20 – 30 times per mouthful is healthy. While maybe a bit impractical, do an experiment. Eat slower during the same amount of time you would normally eat. Notice how you feel afterwards. Often you feel just as full. When I am super rushed for lunch, I know that eating half a sandwich at a regular pace, feels better later than wolfing the whole thing down. One of the reasons for obesity comes from stretching the stomach to accommodate food eaten after we have stopped feeling hungry. When you eat fast, your stomach doesn’t have time to catch up with your mouth!

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