Hasty ingestion of food almost doubles the risk of gaining excess weight, say Japanese scientists.

Researchers from the University of Osaka studied the process of eating about three thousand people. Their findings are published in the British Medical Journal.

As the British dietician from the University of Nottingham Iyan MacDonald points out, the reasons for this lie in the failure of the signal system, which should warn the body about when to stop eating, as reported by the Internet publication for girls and women aged 14 to 35 Pannochka. net According to Professor McDonald, deliberate stretching of food intake can lead to weight loss.

Japanese scientists studied the relationship between the rate of food intake, a feeling of satiety and excessive weight.

Slightly less than half of the three thousand participants in the study said that they usually eat very quickly.

The likelihood of gaining excess weight for men who are accustomed to quickly absorb food is 84% ??compared to people who eat "with feeling, really, with arrangement". For women, this risk is twice as high.

And those who eat fast and do not stop until they feel that they are full, risk to recover three times more.

Nutritionist Ian MacDonald gives several reasons why rushing with food leads to the accumulation of extra pounds.

According to him, the habit of quickly "knocking down" the normal operation of the signal system, which must transmit the signal to the brain to stop eating when the stomach is full.

"If you eat fast, the stomach fills faster than the digestive system is able to produce the desired signal. Consequently, the stomach is most often overloaded, "he says..

The professor points out that a habit can quickly be developed in childhood. However, he said, you can get rid of it, although it is not easy.

"Perhaps the grandmothers who teach children to thoroughly chew every piece, making 20 chewing movements, are right. If you eat a little slower, you eat less, "added Iyan MacDonald.

According to Australian scientists Elizabeth Denny-Wilson and Karen Campbell, the mechanism by which modern people gain weight, until recently was a positive evolutionary factor. He gave an advantage to people who managed to grab more food in conditions when it was not enough.

According to them, children should be taught to eat slowly and allow food to be left in the dish if they feel that they can no longer.

Director of the Laboratory of Digestion at the University of Liverpool Jason Halford notes that researchers of the causes of obesity increasingly pay attention to the behavior of people when eating.

In a study whose results were published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, he found that the anti-obesity drug - sibutramine - slows the rate of food intake by patients.

"Japanese scientists have shown that differences in people's eating habits are associated with overeating and obesity. In another study, it was found that children at an early age. This suggests that such a predisposition may be genetic or acquired in childhood, "said Jason Halford.

However, he notes that scientists have not yet found evidence that attempts to teach children to eat slowly to reduce their risk of obesity in the future.

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