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Article: Eating quickly can make you overeat
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- The Hindustan Times
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Washington, Nov. 4 -- Gorging on your favourite meal can make you overeat, say researchers.
The research team from Laiko General Hospital in Athens Greece have found that eating quickly, as compared to slowly, curtails the release of hormones in the gut that induce feelings of being full.
The decreased release of these hormones can often lead to overeating.
"Most of us have heard that eating fast can lead to food overconsumption and obesity, and in fact some observational studies have supported this notion," said Dr Alexander Kokkinos, lead author of the study.
"Our study provides a possible explanation for the relationship between speed eating and overeating by showing that the rate at ...