Fast way to getting fat

People who gobble down their food and eat until they feel full are three times more likely to get fat compared with people who eat slowly and modestly.

Changing patterns of behavior, driven by the advent of fast food and cheap food, are widely to blame for the obesity pandemic, according to Japanese researchers.

The Osaka University study recruited 1,122 men and 2,165 women aged between 30 and 69 and asked them to closely track their eating habits and body mass index (BMI), a benchmark of obesity.