A systematic review and meta-analysis examining the effect of eating rate on energy intake and hunger
Robinson and colleagues reviewed twenty-two experiments that manipulated how fast people ate and measured how much they then consumed. Combining them, eating more slowly was associated with eating less, at a small to moderate size, which supports the standard advice with an actual number behind it for once. The review was prompted by the mixed results of individual studies, which is why the pooled estimate is more useful than any single one. The authors are careful about what remains unknown, and their closing point is the practical one: knowing that slower eating reduces intake is not the same as knowing how to get anybody to eat more slowly outside a laboratory, and interventions that work in everyday life have not been established. This vault cites it whenever eating pace comes up, in preference to individual experiments.
Robinson and colleagues reviewed twenty-two experiments that manipulated how fast people ate and measured how much they then consumed. Combining them, eating more slowly was associated with eating less, at a small to moderate size, which supports the standard advice with an actual number behind it for once. The review was prompted by the mixed results of individual studies, which is why the pooled estimate is more useful than any single one. The authors are careful about what remains unknown, and their closing point is the practical one: knowing that slower eating reduces intake is not the same as knowing how to get anybody to eat more slowly outside a laboratory, and interventions that work in everyday life have not been established. This vault cites it whenever eating pace comes up, in preference to individual experiments.
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22 studies. Pooled standardised difference 0.45, 95% CI 0.25 to 0.65, with substantial heterogeneity, and no association between eating rate and hunger at the end of the meal or up to 3.5 hours later.
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- Why You Are Hungry an Hour After a Big Lunch, Why We Crave
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https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.113.081745
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.113.081745