Catherine Rampell over at the NYT Economix blog, created this graph of the average time spent eating in various countries, measured against the country’s obesity rate. She noticed originally that the French seemed to have a low obesity rate, despite the fact that they spent a lot of time eating. I’ve always been a horrendously slow eater, but I actually think, for whatever reason, it’s been good for my health. Something about eating slow limits the amount of food you eat, and makes you savor what you do eat.

Catherine Rampell over at the NYT Economix blog, created this graph of the average time spent eating in various countries, measured against the country’s obesity rate. She noticed originally that the French seemed to have a low obesity rate, despite the fact that they spent a lot of time eating. I’ve always been a horrendously slow eater, but I actually think, for whatever reason, it’s been good for my health. Something about eating slow limits the amount of food you eat, and makes you savor what you do eat.

9 months ago
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  1. lawrencehwang reblogged this from alfons and added:
    NYT Economix blog, created this graph of the average time spent eating in various countries, measured against the...
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  3. empact reblogged this from ninakix and added:
    eater (and, perhaps not coincidentally, markedly thin). But then,...can’t understand why...
  4. datablock reblogged this from outofsight and added:
    It’s interesting that Italy, France...Turkey - all countries who
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    It doesn’t show where Spain is,...imagine it falls somewhere in between Italy
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    Note where Japan and Korea are and then look
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