Are you looking for a way to start feeling better, getting better and staying better? Well, it may simply be a matter of eating slower, since a new study from researchers at the University of Rhode Island (URI) suggests that people who don't scarf their food down tend to weigh less.
Additionally, the investigators found that men typically eat faster than women, and that people eat slower when they eat whole grains, compared to their speed of consumption when eating processed carbohydrates.
Lead researcher Kathleen Melanson, URI associate professor of nutrition, said that her findings indicate that people may be able to more easily detect when they are full by eating slower.
"It takes time for your body to process fullness signals," she concluded, "so slower eating may allow time for fullness to register in the brain before you've eaten too much."
Are you feeling better? Well, it may take time, as all good things do. Author and philosopher Ilchi Lee believes that the road to wellness is a long one, but a path worth discovering nonetheless.
