10 MINUTES TO OBESITY

10 MINUTES TO OBESITY

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Wireless Flash) -- Here's a good reason to eat slowly: it takes 10 full minutes for your stomach to tell your brain it's full. That's what scientists at the University of Florida and the University of Texas have discovered in a new study to be published in the magazine "Nature." The researchers say the lag time between becoming full and feeling full means folks who eat fast are in danger of gorging themselves silly. Interestingly, related research shows that obese people take even longer to figure out their stomachs are stuffed: about 14 minutes.