You're supposed to chew each mouthful 20 times and that gives the brain enough time to process what you're eating and will tell you when you're full. If you wolf your food down then you are more likely to over eat as your body hasn't had enough time to suss how much you've eaten.

I think it's 30 minutes... (8-p)

Edd read my post

I just wanted to win (8-p)

Aww you're a champion to me

well to win you should start to apply the rule no? :p
If you eat slowly, you'll be less fat :p

It's not the speed of the eating it's the amount of munching

(8'-() I am slowly slowly losing weight. Or I was (8;-()

On "my big fat diet show" last week, they said it was 20 mins to half an hour and didn't mention chewing, though, obviously, the more you chew, the slower you'll eat.

Tom it's one of my Mother's many pearls of wisdom. I tried it a couple of times and it does work but who can be arsed to chew everything 20 times?

The belgians?

Touche! nah even my Mum doesn't do it lol.

i know but you also eat very fast :p

Not me that's for sure. Plus if you chew meat too much you end up with a ball that you can't swallow. Reminds me of Sunday lunches when I was a kid. Me and my sister would be sitting there looking at each other wondering what on earth we were going to do with these big balls of dry meat in our mouths.

Oh god yeah the meat that won't go down no matter what you do with it lol