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Inside Health

How fast should you eat your food?

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Our guinea-pig presenter James Gallagher has been eating either extremely fast or excruciatingly slow to figure out what our eating speed does to our health. Dr Sarah Berry from Kings College London explains it’s not good news if you devour your dinner! And we get to the bottom of the headlines on cancer and the artificial sweetener aspartame. James and Prof David Spiegelhalter discuss why these cancer-scare stories keep on happening.

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Presenter: James Gallagher Producer: Julia Ravey Editor: Erika Wright Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris Studio Manager: Giles Aspen

Transcript

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0:41.0

Hi there, can I get the chicken catsuit curry, please?

0:44.3

Yes, please.

0:46.8

Thank you very much.

0:48.0

Thank you.

0:48.6

Have a good day.

0:49.3

I think I'm one of life's incredibly fast eaters.

0:54.2

The food goes on the table and bang, it is suddenly gone.

0:57.7

So today I've come to King's College London,

1:00.3

I'm in the canteen where I'm going to meet a friend of the programme

1:03.0

to find out if this is a bad habit and what it's doing to my health.

1:10.4

So nutritional scientist Sarah Berry, what do you make of my lunch?

1:13.9

I think you've got a good balance there of carbohydrate, protein and a good serving of

1:19.1

veg on the side. It does look quite soft in texture, which is interesting as well.

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