ParanoidObsessive posted...
This is why they say you should eat more slowly (and why you'll get advice like "Chew each bite 20 times" or whatever. It basically takes time for your stomach to realize that it's full, and then it takes even longer to send the signal to your brain to stop eating. So if you keep shoveling food in, you'll overeat long before you realize how full you really are.
This is also why obesity rates can be lower in regions whose typical diets seem like they should have higher rates. American dining culture tends to emphasize cramming a meal in quickly so you can get back to work. In regions where it's more culturally normal to spend a longer time at the table, treating dining as more of a social experience and something to savour and not just an unfortunately necessary interruption to productive time, you get people eating more slowly and not outpacing their body's ability to recognize that they're full.
Judgmenl posted...
Goddamn PO that is the longest post I've seen anyone make on here in years.
Pssh, that wasn't even close to the character limit (the warning for which shows up
way
later than it should). Those are rookie numbers.