{"id":8201,"date":"2009-05-15T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T17:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2009-05-15T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T17:29:52","slug":"time-spent-eating-helps-determine-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/time-spent-eating-helps-determine-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Spent Eating Helps Determine Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not very good with charts. It&#8217;s one of the reasons that, when I got to calculus in college, I changed my coursework from Architecture to English. But even I can understand what this chart amounts to:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/05\/time-spent-eating-helps-determine-weight\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8200\" title=\"time spent eating chart\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/obesitychart.jpg\" alt=\"obesitychart\" width=\"426\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/obesitychart.jpg 533w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/obesitychart-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The chart plots out the relationship between the amount of time people take in the day to eat and their BMI (<a title=\"BMI\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/understanding-body-mass-index\/\" target=\"_self\">Body Mass Index<\/a>). As can be expected, those countries that eat their food more quickly tend to be more obese. And as someone commented at <a title=\"obesity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.psfk.com\/2009\/05\/chart-time-spent-eating-vs-national-obesity-rate.html\" target=\"_blank\">psfk.com<\/a>, those populations above the trend line tend to eat large land-based mammals (beef, pork, etc.) as their main protein source, and those under the trend line tend to eat mostly fish.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Chart via <a title=\"new york times\" href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/05\/obesity-and-the-fastness-of-food\/\" target=\"_blank\">Economix blog<\/a> at the New York Times.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not very good with charts. It&#8217;s one of the reasons that, when I got to calculus in college, I changed my coursework from Architecture to English. But even I can understand what this chart amounts to:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[342,345,29,92,306],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-health","tag-healthy-eating","tag-nutrition","tag-obesity","tag-weight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8432,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}