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[carorees]

I was doing my daily search to see if any new information had been published on the subject of fasting when I came across this:
Fast eating and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: A case-control study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22800734

Seems that wolfing the food down is detrimental to health!

Just came across this post and it made me blink a bit. I have a long-standing tendency to wolf my food. Not diabetic but i worry I may develop it.

Can anyone explain the link in plain language between wolfing and diabetes? I'm not dumbing myself down but I don't get it - simply don't have a scientific bent of mind.

Much obliged!

[Betsysgr8]

My Dad was a very fast eater and later developed type 2 diabetes. My Mom had to reposition us kids every once in awhile to slow us down since it seemed anybody sitting near Dad would wolf down their food. Lol

[carorees]

Just came across this post and it made me blink a bit. I have a long-standing tendency to wolf my food. Not diabetic but i worry I may develop it.

Can anyone explain the link in plain language between wolfing and diabetes? I'm not dumbing myself down but I don't get it - simply don't have a scientific bent of mind.

Much obliged!

The researchers asked a group of just diagnosed diabetics about their eating habits and compared them with non-diabetics. They did some calculations to account for known factors that increase the risk of diabetes but found that eating fast still more than doubles the risk.

It's an interesting article - I had read somewhere about it a while back. I have a tendency to eat fast, and actually noticed recently that I have the knife and fork working on the next bit while I am still chewing the current one. Putting the utensils down between mouthfuls has been a good one for me, as it slows things down considerably

Thanks, Carorees. Do they say what it is about eating fast that leads to diabetes? I'm imagining something like too much food going in too quick for the body to process but there must be more to it than that!

I've been trying to adopt a mindful eating approach for a while (putting cutlery down between mouthfuls does seem to help!) but, oh dear, eating habits of 50-mumble years are hard to break!

Got it! (sorry, should have thought to Google it earlier!)

The link appears to be - Eating fast = Over-eating = Obesity = Diabetes. I'm over-simplifying, of-course.

Here's the Daily Mail article (the authority on all things scientific! )

:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2141077/Eating-meals-quickly-raise-risk-diabetes-half-times.html:

Just came across this post and it made me blink a bit. I have a long-standing tendency to wolf my food. Not diabetic but i worry I may develop it.

Can anyone explain the link in plain language between wolfing and diabetes? I'm not dumbing myself down but I don't get it - simply don't have a scientific bent of mind.

I wonder if faster absorption pushes up blood glucose further or gives a stronger insulin response which in the long run leads to Insulin Resistance and Type II diabetes.

My Dad was the slowest eater in the world. At a formal dinner the moment he put down his knife and fork the waiting staff would descend to clear the plates - they obviously had him marked as the back runner. He wasn't overweight but he developed type 2 diabetes. He did like his sweeeties though!

A question for the nerds: If the incidence of T2DM (type 2 diabetes mellitus) is 20%, 1 in 5, does that mean my risk of getting T2DM doubles to 2 in 5 or 40% if I eat fast...

So in the past it didn't matter if you ate fast because the incidence of diabetes was very low.

Or is that an over simplification?

Just trying to understand what the figures suggest...

[carorees]

Peter, the risk is doubled compared with people who eat slower, but that figure of 1in 5 includes the fast eating people, so if you eat fast you double your chances of being one of those 20%.

I'm naturally a slow eater, but have been forced by short lunch breaks to learn to wolf down my food. When I wolf it down, I don't experience the same satisfaction due to not being able to appreciate the taste and texture, and it also gives me indigestion.

I think fast eaters eat a larger amount of food before their satiety response kicks in, and I think they digest food differently due to it not being finely separated by chewing and saliva not working on it. I'm not a scientist, but I feel convinced the breaking down and pre-digestion of food in the mouth or lack of same changes how the bacteria in the gut is able to interact with it.

[Betsysgr8]

I think fast eaters eat a larger amount of food before their satiety response kicks in, and I think they digest food differently due to it not being finely separated by chewing and saliva not working on it. I'm not a scientist, but I feel convinced the breaking down and pre-digestion of food in the mouth or lack of same changes how the bacteria in the gut is able to interact with it.

Those were my thoughts when I first read the paper that Caroline posted. I don't think fast eaters actually chew their food as much as slow eaters.

Peter, the risk is doubled compared with people who eat slower, but that figure of 1in 5 includes the fast eating people, so if you eat fast you double your chances of being one of those 20%.

Thank you for that simple explanation. I needed it!
I guessed there was something wrong with my logic