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Slow and Steady Eating speed could have a direct impact on obesity 
Wolfing down dinner is more than just cause for indigestion. It could be a major player in the battle against obesity. A new study, published online in the British Medical Journal, surveyed 3,300 Japanese adults at Osaka University and revealed that people who ate their meals fast were twice as likely to be overweight as those who ate slowly. It also found that people who ate until they were full were more than three times as likely to be overweight when compared to people who stopped before experiencing feelings of fullness. Hiroyasu Iso, professor at Osaka University and study author, found that for those sampled in the study, eating fast and until uncomfortably full had "a supra-additive effect on [being] overweight." Elizabeth Denney-Wilson, University of New South Wales, and Karen Campbell, Deakin University, both in Australia, wrote in an accompanying editorial that these findings help illustrate how current eating issues in many nations could play a role in the epidemic of obesity.
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