WTF - another useless study

Wow. It never ceases to amaze me how money is squandered and frittered away on really useless studies.

Melanson decided to conduct the study when she learned there was no research to support the familiar claim that eating slowly reduces appetite.

She and her colleagues had 30 young women eat a meal of ditalini with tomato and vegetable sauce, topped with Parmesan cheese, under two different conditions. Before each meal, the women had eaten a standard 400-calorie breakfast, and then fasted for four hours.

At one visit to the lab, study participants were given a large spoon and told not to pause between bites and to eat as quickly as possible. At the other, participants ate with a small spoon, which they put down after each bite, and were told to take small bites and chew each bite 15 to 20 times.

When eating quickly, the women took in an average of 646 calories in nine minutes. But when they slowed down, they consumed 579 calories in 29 minutes, according to their report, presented at the annual meeting of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity

The women felt fuller and more satisfied immediately after they ate the meal and an hour later when they had consumed it slowly, Melanson and her colleagues found.

No studies? Really?
Then how did people learn eating slowly makes more sense? Who informed us that it takes about 20 minutes for the tummy to signal to the brain that it's full? Was it all gas, shits and giggles done by researchers having a good time on their lunch break?


Oh well. Perhaps it was, eh?