Tag: eating behaviors

STUDY: Behavioral Changes Associated With Lower Obesity

HOW you eat, can determine how much you are hungry for. This, in turn can contribute to obesity. Follow @willclower That’s the theory anyway. But how does it hold up if you were to actually test it?  These scientists performed a systematic and exhaustive review with a “meta-analysis of...

Ask Will: No Time To Eat At Work

Dear Will I have no time to eat. No time. Like No.Time.To.Eat!  What do I do?? Respectfully, No Time Is My Present Follow @willclower  Dear No Time, Wouldn’t it be great if we lived in a place where we had 2 ½ hours to eat our lunch? Wouldn’t it...

Ask Will: Should We Eat 5 Times Per Day?

Dear Will, Can you advise if eating five times throughout the day is better than eating three meals and no snacks?   … I’m wondering if I should eat three balanced meals instead. ~Catherine Follow @willclowerDear Catherine, Thank you so much for this question … and your intuition is spot on! “Eat...

New Study: Eat Slow. You’ll Eat Less.

How many times have we said this?  The amount you’re hungry for is only PARTIALLY due to calorie-debt. It’s also about how FAST you eat it!  Two new studies (click here to see yourself) by researchers at the University of Rhode Island found that:  A) men eat significantly faster...

How To Live Forever (your individual mileage may vary)

I read a very silly study conclusion today. Ready?  Lifestyle doesn’t matter. If you want to live a long healthy life, you only need to have the genes of the Ashkenazi Jews. There. Problem solved. This work, published this week in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society involved 477 Ashkenazi Jews aged...

Can chewing more help you eat less?

You mean … like a cow working her cud?  A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that people who chew  40 times instead of a typical 15 times led to fewer calories consumed (by 12% — which would lead to weight loss of ~ 25 pounds for the average...

British Fast Food? 7min 20sec for Breakfast; 12min 49sec for Lunch

That’s how FAST we eat, according to a new study.  Around a third of people said they watched television while they choked back their breakfast and over half had the set on when they ate dinner.Do You Think This Contributes To Their Obesity Problems? Of course it does. Nearly half...

CNN Money: Starbucks to roll out 31-ounce drink: the Trenta

(CNNMoney) — Starbucks will offer a new plus-sized iced drink beginning this week. The “Trenta” will be 31 ounces — one ounce shy of a quart — and available for iced coffee, Tazo shaken iced tea and iced tea lemonade. Starbucks is rolling out the Trenta in 14 states...

Does lunch in front of a computer make us eat more?

The answer is YES, and here’s why.Mindless, distracted eating creates overconsumption. For years, people have noticed how (in healthy cultures) their focus on the food itself helps to improve both the quality (it goes up) and the quantity (it goes down) of the food consumed.  Now, researchers have found that...