December 31, 2001
Your Mom, Gulp, Was Wrong
The faster you eat, the better food tastes
(HealthDayNews) -- Remember when your mother kept telling you not to eat so quickly?
Turns out, she was behind the times.
The journal Psychosomatic Medicine reports a fascinating side finding from a study that compared the eating patterns of obese people with non-obese people.
While the study didn't uncover much that was interesting about obesity, it did find something interesting about taste: Food eaten quickly tastes better than the same food eaten slowly!