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Eating Fast Until Full Triples Overweight Risk
By admin | October 27, 2008
People who eat quickly and until they’re full are three times more likely to be overweight than others, a Japanese study says.
For the research, 1,122 men and 2,165 women, ages 30 to 69, filled out a diet history questionnaire about their eating habits, which revealed that 50.9 percent of men and 58.4 percent of women said they ate until they were full, while 45.6 percent of men and 36 percent of women said they ate quickly.
Those who said they ate quickly and until they were full had a higher body mass index (BMI) and total energy intake, and were three times more likely to be overweight than those who didn’t eat until they were full and didn’t eat quickly.
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