William Atkins
Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:46
Science -
Health
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A Japanese-U.S. study found that the quicker a person eats and those eating until they feel full are much more likely to be overweight.
The researchers conducting this study were from Osaka University, University of Tokyo, Osaka Medical Center for Health Science and Promotion, Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, and Harvard University.
The Japanese-U.S. researchers set down the conclusions of their research study in the October 21, 2008 paper “
The joint impact on being overweight of self reported behaviours of eating quickly and eating until full : cross sectional survey.”
Published in the
British Medical Journal, the researchers examined whether eating quickly or eating until one is full (or both) can lead to more risk of being overweight or obese.
The state of being overweight is considered by the medical community to be when a person’s body mass index (
BMI), the measure of body fat based on height and weight, is over 25.0.
Being obese is considered when BMI is 30 or greater.
The research team used 3,287 adults (1,122 men and 2,165 women) from two communities in Japan.
The adults, with ages ranging from 30 to 69 years, participated in self-administered surveys on the risks associated with cardiovascular disease between the years of 2003 and 2006.
Who was more likely to eat faster: men or women? Who were more likely to eat until they were full: men or women?
Men in one case and women in the other case.
Which specifically? Please read page two to find out.
