i think i have this problem....

im like the fastest eater ever, i was always the first kid done eating at school, and im always the first to leave the table at dinner time... im skinny... go figure.

I eat very fast. I'm very impatient.

I spend a lot of time eating, but I still eat fast, so that means I eat a LOT, which is a bad combination...

Hey i knew that thing!!! and i eat very fast... buut i'm not fat!!!!

i totally agree with this. I notice when I eat slower I eat much less...so many people are in a hurry now a days.

mii friend told me that a long time ago. i try to eat slower now :]

This is shit. Dude, I eat fast, I'm 5"5 and only 95 lbs. So, there you have it. Another pointless story.

i think the problem is more that people eat fast AND a lot. if you eat 500 calories really fast i don't think it makes you fat..it also probably has something to do with how fast each persons metabolism is and how much people in each country work out...and studies have shown if you eat slower you get fuller with less food...

well i have 10 min to eat lunch.
do the math
suxxster

i just did a newpaper article over this for my school

hahaha

sadddddd

weird...

I think people eat fast, but they also eat more of the wrong things. So maybe it's not just a speed thing.

It has to do with hormones that get sent to your brain telling you that you're full. . . it takes about 20-30 mins (i think) for Leptin to tell your brain (hypothalamus) to stop eating your full!
Also, people stop eating according to the amount of food. In the west, we consume more fatty foods which contributes to excess calories (fat = 9kcal, carb = 4kcal!) leading to overconsumption.

So its really because of fast fatty foods

It really depends on what I'm eating, and what I'm doing at the same time. I totally agree with that graph..it makes sense. I'm going to have to learn to be a fast eater, though, for the army. =]

I eat way too fast

me too

I eat VEEEEEERRRRRRYYYYYY SLLLLLOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW haha
Yea I'm thin.
I hate eating fast it takes me an hour to eat lunch lol

i eat so fast, its crazy

I'm hungry all the time and I eat really fast and I can eat more than your whole family combined!!!:D

Hhhmmm, maybe that's not something I should be proud of...oh well!

Lets not forget we tend to eat faster which makes us even more hungry so we hoover loads of junk food... I think we need to slow down and shrink our portions.

ouch i hope that last sentence was ironic! lol 20 mins is a lot of time, more than enough. watch yourself n ull see ull finish ur plate in 5. nway it this doesnt mean the cuantity doesnt matter. if u see really obese ppl they eat ALL THE TIME, n it makes sense with this cos its like they dont fully realize theyre eating or sth.

i love eating @ friends houses.
because i am rarely hungry, unlike at home, i get bored and eat,

so i totally agree w/ that.

Eatting with friends for the win! xD

For me, it's a depending thing; on my mood, on the day, ...
I'm German; maybe that's how it is here; that's why we're middle-ish

I don't know how much time I spend eating?

I eat when I'm hungry, and don't eat when I'm not hungry.
Although, I fall to the occasional "boredom eating". But, I'm a pretty slow eater. It takes me, like, 20+ minutes to eat a small bag of chips.

I'm a really slow eater. I've pointed out that I eat slow, and drink lots of water. I make a point out of actually tasting my food, and I believe this may have helped me stay skinny.

In my class I'm one of the ones we eat slower , and the others complain about it -.-'
I just can't eat fast ! While at home I spend almost 25 minutes eating or more ..

i eatt superr slow depending on how hungry i am.
But i think this is a hugee problem.

ive heard this before and i told people and they didnt believe me.........

How spiffy. :]

i have no time so i shove my breakfast down. but with school lunch, i eat really slow. i go for the fruit and veggies first then the jojo's and if i feel like it, i eat the pizza. most recently i dont eat the pizza so i throw it away

I use to eat everything really fast. Now I only eat anything sweet really fast. But I've never been fat. I super skinny and I'm trying to gain weight. Eating fast doesn't help.

This is why I'm fat, I eat super fast. It's like, impossible for me to chew my food slowly. The only time I ever eat slow, is when I'm embarrassed to eat infront of someone I like. But, I'm always finished eating before EVERYONE else. D:

this is really cool;
i've heard it before but its still really cool;
and i do eat my food extremely fast;
i need to slow it down:/

ln my past life l was a cow.

I eat way too fast. I have things to do.

Well duh. That's a diet, the chew 30 times before you swallow every time diet. It's got a better name though.
I eat at an average pace.. sometimes slower or faster.

have they seen ME eat?
lolz
no wonder im fat.....i need to eat slower

well this sucks.. ahaha

Lol Wow This Is Crazy.
I Eat Two Times A Day , Breakfast And Dinner. Occasionally Lunch. But I Do Eat Fast. Everytime I Eat Dinner With My Family, I'm Like 'Wow, You're Still Eating'. Lol. But This Could Be True Since You Don't Digest Your Food As Well As When You Eat Slow.

omg i'm deffinitly eating slower i weigh 152 holy crap well that cuz my boobs weigh lik 18 freakin punds and so does my ass butt omg i'm going to eat like a turtle from now on.

That's true if you think about it. Should try to eat slower.. i always wondered why people eat soo slow

I eat fast because I never have enough time : [ My parents told me this before, and I started eating slower and losing a bit more weight. I'm still a healthy size though

I have known this for a while. It takes time for your brain to receive the message from your stomach that it is "full", so if you eat slower, you're allowing it more time to recognize that you're not hungry.

im a pretty slow eater unless im like, super hungry.

i blame the school system.
you go to get your food, stand in line for most of the time, then when you finally get your food, the bell rings and you have 5 minutes to eat.
i mean, this problem is worse in elementary schools (the one i went to anyway) because they tell you when to get up whether you're done or not!

I always eat slow. Not on purpose, just because I'm a slow eater.

But I do agree with meganxmacabre. I think a lot of the reason school-aged kids eat fast is because of school. We have half a period to eat lunch, which means we have a fourth of a period to actually EAT lunch. The other part is spent in line.

I spend an hour like each time i eat. hahah. lie.. four times a day XD

Guys, there are plenty of other things for you to eat that is much, much healthier than fast food. Go to the store and buy organic food, yes I know it doesn't taste good at first, but you get use to it after awhile and you will find yourself skinner, healthier, and more energetic. So, avoid those nasty places and go home and cook a nice meal and spend time with your family.

i only eat once a day, like at around 4 in the afternoon. & im usually like way hungry by that point, so everything is scarfed down kinda fast. but im not obese at all. a lot of it is probably to do with your eating habits & if that's how you're used to eating, your body will adapt to it? idk, just a guess.

I eat slow... hehe.. I'm always the last one to finish..!

i learned this a few years back...i eat slower when i think about it but sometimes, it doesnt make a difference.

I saw this on the news a week or so ago. I eat fast and people still consider me a bean pole :/

I'm a slow eater yet I'm still overweight. My luck, right?

I already knew that it wasn't good to eat fast though. I never was a fast eater.

I think there's a connection, but I don't think it's a direct reason for being overweight... :/

I eat very little because I eat very slow, I guess it is why I am so close to being underweight.

i eat really fast, i defo have this problem, did you know it is good to chew a mouthful around 40 times, i can't but it is healthier apparently. i should really slow down, b ut at school we only have an hour at school and i have too much to do, so i generally have to eat fast

I used to eat really fast all the time, but I heard about the eating fast thing a year or two ago and now since then I ate slower and healthier and I feel better. So, das good. (:

i eat and like fast food. but i'm skinny so i don't have any problems.

Wow

I eat all the time. Haha so doesn't really matter to me I'll just try to eat faster cause I'm trying to gain weight.

I eat very slowly. And I'm not fat, woot woot

lol i knew thats what is was.
people are too lazy and are too worried about eating fast. so they eat twice as much.
your stomach takes 20 mins before it knows your FULL. EAT SLOWER

P.S.
its always not how fast you eat either or how often you eat fast food. some people have fast metabolisms than others. duhhh
i dont eat fast food that often but i gain weight up and down all the time and im not as skinny as i should be

ya, i read that there are sensors in your stomach that tell the brain when it’s filled. if you eat too fast those sensors don’t have time to tell your mind that you are full. it's best to take your time & enjoy your meal.

I have that problem...