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How long does your average meal last? Is it more like 5 minutes or 45? A recent survey conducted in Britain found that the average dinnertime lasts just 14 minutes and 27 seconds, which is a decrease of more than 50% over the 33-minute mealtime recorded two decades ago. Only 1 in 10 diners have meals that regularly last over 30 minutes. On top of the shorter, speedier meal time, more people are eating alone and swapping home-cooked food for take out food and prepackaged goods.
Nutritionists can't help but link the diminishing importance of meal times with the growing obesity rates, citing the facts that 8 out of 10 people regularly eat in front of the TV and 1 in 5 eat at their computer as examples of mindless eating that proves people no longer pay attention to what they put into their bodies. The statistics support this position. 20% of all Britons are now clinically obese, with 25% of all British women falling into the obese category.
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3-04-2007 @9:42AM Jane said... I is a shame to see that the rest of the world is catching up to us in the USA with our waistlines.
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3-08-2007 @9:06PM Aurorasbored said... I'm an oft-mocked "slow eater" but that's usually because I'm busy talking, like my family (notorious gabbers) did at mealtimes at home. Gave me a pretty good standard for making meals less about the food, despite becoming a pretty hardcore gourmand.
Plus it figures that with more courses, with the fanfare they invite, are smaller portioned anyway, and people take two bites and are on to the next thing.
Whereas when I stop at McDonald's alone with no one to talk to, scarf goes the McNuggets and the dietary shame.
Maybe mandatory dinner "curfew" for families in New York? Would be fun/a total disaster.
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