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For years, doctors, nutritionists and even parents have told people that the key to getting more satisfaction from your food is to eat more slowly. Not only does this allow you to actually enjoy the flavors in your meal, but it was always said to give the brain time to recognize the fact that it was no longer hungry, which would in turn cause you to stop eating. Up until recently, there was no clinical evidence to support that decision.
Dr. Kathleen Melanson, of the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, changed all that by conducting a study on college age women to see how much different styles of eating affected their calorie intake. All the women were given a bowl of pasta with tomato and vegetable sauce after eating a 400-calorie breakfast and fasting for four hours. One group of women was given a large spoon and told to eat as quickly as possible, not pausing between bites. The other group was given a small spoon and told to pause in between each bite, setting down the spoon and chewing 15-20 times. The fast eaters ate 646 calories in 9 minutes, while the slower eaters ate only 579 calories in 29 minutes. The slower eaters also reported feeling fuller, longer.
Melanson estimates that eating slowly could reduce the number of calories a person eats by about 210 per day.
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12-04-2006 @2:22PM Nathan said... And if you take this study to its natural extreme opposite, you have evidence that supports the story right before it.
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12-04-2006 @5:51PM Jeff said... er, isn't that common sense?
maybe it's just news because now we have an "official study"
:)
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12-06-2006 @7:39PM red said... Um, duh.
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12-04-2006 @4:17PM Tiff said... I always hear this but I wasn't sure if it worked or not. I DEFINITELY need to add this into my eating habits!!
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12-04-2006 @7:25PM Kate said... I'm weary of studies of the obvious. "Scientists show that eating slowly results in food cooling to a lower temperature then when meal first began." There, guys. Your next assignment.
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12-04-2006 @10:22PM calamari said... There's something odd about this study. Okay, slow eaters ate less even though they lingered over the meal -- so far, so good. But it's common wisdom that larger portions "cause" people to eat more:
http://www.slashfood.com/2006/11/03/binging-more-likely-when-eating-out/
So this study suggests that people *don't* eat to clean the plate if they eat slowly -- that is, that larger portions won't make a difference for slow eaters.
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