Why eating quickly is bad for you




















Related: Is Obesity Genetic? In a large study, middle-aged men and women without diabetes who said they were fast eaters were at increased risk for insulin resistance. Of course, eating fast is related to obesity — and obesity is a major cause of insulin resistance. But at least for the men in the study, fast eating added to their risk even when the researchers controlled for BMI levels. Insulin resistance is closely related to metabolic syndrome — a cluster of factors that increase the risk of developing not only diabetes, but also heart disease and stroke.

Over the next three years, fast eaters were more likely to develop metabolic syndrome than those who ate more slowly. Related: 13 Foods to Balance Blood Sugar. Fast eating has also been linked to erosive gastritis — inflammation that eats away at the lining of the stomach, causing shallow breaks or sometimes deep ulcers.

Doctors were more likely to find signs of erosive gastritis in patients who said they were fast eaters. One possible reason: People who gulp down their food are more likely to overeat. And overeating, in turn, causes food to sit around in the stomach longer, so the stomach lining is exposed to more gastric acid.

Yeah, I went there. But it's true. Most belching is caused by swallowing excess air by doing things like eating too fast, chewing gum, or drinking carbonated beverages, according to the Mayo Clinic. If you get super burpy after every meal, then slowing down might help. It's one thing to feel satiated. But feeling straight-up stuffed is another matter entirely. Eating too quickly can cause you to lose touch with your body's signals of fullness and hunger , making it easy to eat to the point of discomfort, according to LiveStrong.

As anyone who's overdone it on a big meal can attest, that feeling of over-fullness is very uncomfortable. If you've ever dealt with acid reflux, then you know it's wildly unpleasant.

And eating quickly can increase the risk of acid reflux after a meal, according to WebMD. Chill out while chowing down to lower your odds of getting heartburn.

If you're feeling nauseous after a meal, then check your speed. Experiencing nausea after eating can be caused by something as simple as inhaling your food too fast, according to WebMD. The researchers from Hiroshima University in Japan followed up men and women over five years, identifying them as either slow, normal or fast eaters. They found that fast eaters were The link between eating quickly and becoming unhealthy has been known for a while.

Receptors in the stomach that respond to being stretched by food, and the hormones that signal to the brain that partially digested food has made it to the small intestine, can take 15 to 20 minutes to kick in. A study of more than 3, men and women in Japan where studying the impact of speedy eating is popular found that those who ate quickly and continued until they were full were three times more likely to be overweight than those who ate more slowly.



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