Written by Jane Tucker | Thursday, 27 November 2008 | There are 14 comments
only makes you look like an uneducated oik 
The upper class newspaper The Daily Telegraph has been expanding on a theory that good table manners could have a direct effect on maintaining a slim figure and not putting on weight. The argument is quite simple in that those people who eat elegantly with a knife and fork slowly putting small parcels of food in their mouths, while at the same time conducting polite conversation with others at the dining table will by the end of the meal have consumed a smaller amount.
The British Medical Journal last month published a study involving over 3,000 adults which concluded that those people who ate fast doubled the chances of themselves becoming overweight. The science behind eating slowly is that it takes between ten and twenty minutes for the stomach to fully register signals to the brain that it is full so that people who eat fast continue to eat large amounts even when their stomachs are full.
When eating an upper class meal involving a small starter like soup, a main course of meat and vegetables followed by a desert and maybe fruit the whole process of eating is spread over at least an hour giving your stomach plenty of time to warn you that it is full up. Stuffing yourself at a dinner party not only makes you look like an uneducated oik but also means that you probably are not appreciating the food. Eating slowly shows refinement and an appreciation of the finest things in life as well as a realisation that food is not purely for nourishment but also for enjoyment.
Doctor Ian Campbell from the National Obesity Forum explained how having “structured habits” can play a big part in restricting calorie intake and eating healthily. He said that having a “behavioural framework” could help you to slow down your eating speed which in turn would lead you to eating less.
At Ukmedix News we are a great believers in the fact that little changes in your eating habits can over time have a big effect on whether you are overweight are not. A simple thing like making a concerted effort to eat in a more refined and elegant way may be all that is required for you to maintain a slim figure.
Even Jamie Oliver who can hardly claim to be a cousin of the Queen of England said that it was ‘horrific’ that many families no longer used a dining table to eat and instead packed around the TV and ate staring at it and not even noticing their food.
There are 14 comments on this article.
Maynard Blair said:
You are joking?
Its nor a class issue its all related to income!
The fat people can;t afford anything but Maccadees and end up eating that on a settee cos they ain;t got no money for a dining table.
Even Posh people will end up fat with limited means, and running out of money you'll quickly lose your table manners for more practical priorities...
Wannabe thin? be rich is the message here and I know I studied this.
William said:
I agree with many issues you have mentioned particularly 'fast eating' and 'eating infront of the television', however I DO NOT agree with this being a class issue, have you thought of Henry the eighth and his retinue when writing this article????
JackBlack said:
Posh people are thinner than plebs in general. Maybe cos they can afford to go to the gym?
zulu said:
In Africa being fat is considered good and a sign of wealth and beauty. Fat chicks should go and live in Africa and they should send the thin ones here where they would be appreciated.... Crazy world eh!
oombully ah said:
Thats rediculous- if you send all the fat birds to africa, they'll end up skinny cos there's nothing to eat.
In fact they themselves wll end up being replaced by fresh fat lasses. So like a boomerang, and my missus they'll always come back.
Except my missus doesn;t come back thin!
Hmmm... this migh be a solution to the prob the Uk's facing with lardies!!!
fattie said:
why are you all talking about it like its a choice - this article was actually quite iteresting until the comments suggest that fat people have to be rich or poor, upper clas or lower class and even suggesting habitabiliity as a factor - you see fat and thin people EVERYWHERE and inEVERY country - name me a place without one fat person or one thin person and I will eat my own belly.
holly said:
There are no fat people in the little island of Gozo in the Mediterranean. Fattie - looks like you have to eat your belly now.
Giuseppe said:
Has bomb just wiped out the whole population of Gozo?
If this is not the case then Holly has a very long nose...hmm....
martinz said:
I have never been 2 the meditaranian but i heard they r all fat ther specialy after they get maried, typical latin style lades. In bracknel we dont hvae no fat birds, thats cos they r all upper class..
brixton said:
Fat birds dominate bracknell... where there be KFC there be big momma's....
Now if KFC wasn't so accessible in terms of cheap cost we might actually see a reduction in sales of those extra large G-strings.
Mary said:
so poverty and class as an indicator of wealth lead to obesity?
nicnac said:
poor people = fat (junk food) rich = thin (home cooked food) simple
richie rich said:
I think alot of fat people are rich?
Look at all the people in the Middle East they have big bucks and i think they have an obesity problem?
pohar said:
what about all the fat kings in the past - rich they were, no? think henry 8 and many wives,.maybe fat is to do with amount of wives,,arabs - many wives and obese??
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