Healthcare

Currently, obesity has become a scary thing for many people. Not only reduces the physical beauty for women, but also can increase serious risk of illness in the future for both to men and women. Moreover, many researches have been ensured the negative consequences of obesity. From the risk of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, etc.

While several types of foods have been found to significantly increase body weight, how to eat also can be an indicator of obesity risk.

How come eating way could be at risk of obesity?

According to recent study from New Zealand, people who eat quickly have higher risk of obesity than people who eat slowly.

It looks like the people who eat quickly will absorb more calories without realizing it has been full.

Reported in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association for August 2011 issue, the study involved 1,600 New Zealand women who were asked about how fast they eat, following with their current weight and height, lifestyle, and other risk factors by mail.

For instance, about less of 35% of responder described as fast or very fast categories, 15% described as slow or very slow categories, and about 50% described as middle speed categories.

Although the results of this study are self-reported of responders, but the results obtained are generally portray that eat quickly have much higher risk of obesity compared with other categories.

With this results, although the study authors have not found a real causality, changing way of eating however can be an additional alternative in reducing the risk of obesity and body mass index (BMI) in weight management.