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Article: Mom was right: Eating fast makes us fat.
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- UPI Energy Resources
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Greek researchers say mom was right when she said wolfing down your food will make you fat.
The study, published in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, finds those taking a full 30 minutes to eat ice cream tend to have higher concentrations of two satiety inducing gut hormones -- peptide YY and glucagon-like peptide -- and had more of a feeling of being full than those who ate their ice cream quickly.
Our study provides a possible explanation for the relationship between speed eating and overeating by showing that the rate at which someone eats may ...