"Eating slowly fills you up faster" finally proven

This article was recently published proving what your mom always said: "Eat more slowly and you'll fill up."  The scientists gave the subjects either 5 minutes or much longer to eat a serving of ice cream.  The ones that didn't have to gulp it down in 5 minutes had measurably higher hormones that signal the brain that you are full.  They also had more full scores on some other tests.

An interesting thing to observe is if you actually have an empty mouth before you take your next bite.  Many of us still have half a bite left in there while we are cramming in a whole new one, myself included.

In the quest for a better power to weight ratio for triathlon, it seems there's an unending array of ways we can eat and treat ourselves better.  Most interesting is that they are almost all common sense; you just have to apply yourself and break bad habits.

Just like you can go overboard with overeating, you can also get too thin and that compromises your performance as well.  For example, Chrissie Wellington has commented that she makes sure she doesn't go below a certain weight because a lack of body fat will sink you in the swim.  This couldn't be more true. The "owner's manual" for greyhound dogs says to never let them swim in deep water because they will sink like a stone.  They don't have enough body fat to keep afloat!