Experts in nutrition and weight loss diets often recommend (among many other things) that people who want to eat to lose weight slowly and carefully, thinking about what they are doing. Now researchers Greek scientists explain why fast food is associated with overeating and, by extension, promote weight gain.
These findings are very important today because they offer easy to implement tips to combat excess weight. The World Health Organization (WHO) claims that 700 million adults will be obese, and nearly 2,300 billion overweight by 2015. Children do not represent an exception: currently there are 22 million children under five years are obese.
The extra kilos are not a simple matter of aesthetics. They affect people’s self esteem and create a social stigma, but also greatly increase the risk of developing diseases like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular problems, arthritis and various cancers. As a result, obesity markedly decreases the quality and life expectancy.
Researchers Laiko General Hospital of Athens and knew that certain gut hormones are released during meals in order to generate the sensation of fullness in the brain. The objective was to determine whether the rate of food affects the production of these hormones.
All volunteers ate 300 milliliters of ice cream at different speeds. Subsequently, we measured seven times at intervals of 30 minutes your blood sugar, insulin, lipids and gut hormones in blood. As a result, those who ate the ice cream slowly had higher levels of gut hormones and felt more satisfied.
The researchers concluded that eating too fast slows down the release of these hormones. As a result, the feeling of satiety are delayed, people eat more and consequently tend to get fat.
Our study sheds light on an aspect of over-consumption of the modern world people eat fast by the pressures of work and lifestyle. The old adage that children gave us very quickly that eating fat can make us actually have a physiological explanation, they concluded.