Remember when Geezer reported on research showing that eating more slowly would lead to eating less food? Apparently, that theory pertains only to food served as part of the meal. Now comes research from Maastricht University in the Netherlands, intended to find out if eating more slowly would lead people to eat fewer between-meal snacks. The short answer: no. The long answer: Two and a half hours after a meal, diners who ate a meal in two hours ate as many snacks as diners who at the same meal in 30 minutes.The New York Times reports on the research, which found that slow diners ate only 10 percent fewer snack calories than the fast diners.
Read more in the New York Times.