Pace Controls Portions
Posted On November 6, 2008
It is important to say it again: Pace Controls Portions.
This simple principle can be found in the healthy habits of the Mediterranean people, and has been replicated in this study published in the British Medical Journal.
Over 3,000 Japanese volunteers (aged from 30 to 69) were asked about about their eating behaviors. About half of the men and a little more than half of the women said they ate until full. About 45 percent of the men and 36 percent of the women said they ate quickly.
The Result?
Those who ate until full and ate quickly were three times more likely to be fat than people who did not, the researchers found.
The Mediterranean diet is more than just the food pyramind. It is more than just the assembly of foods you can eat because, if you overconsume your foods — whether they are modified food products (low fat, low carb, etc), you will gain weight.
The reason our Mediterranean approach works, then, is because it combines healthy foods with the healthy behaviors that limit their consumption.
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