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> chewing my food thoroughly.

I've been trying to work on that. For better digestion and slower speed. For some reason, I've always been a fast eater and I'll end up eating more than is needed because I was faster than my body's feedback loop.

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Same. I think there's something about having been a public school student in the past 10-20 years that's to blame. We'd only get half an hour sometimes to eat lunch, and that's the only break between classes, so I grew up with the negative incentive to wolf down/inhale my shitty pizza/chicken sandwich as fast as possible so I could rid myself of the lunch tray and go play with my friends, study, or sulk in a corner.

My grade school daughter’s actual time to eat lunch, at a public high school in an affluent area, after lines/outdoor time/etc (I have not been able to ascertain what eats up so much of the ~30 minutes lunch period allocation) varies between 3 and 7 minutes. She always has a packed lunch, so none of her time is spent waiting in line for actual food. This is staggering to me. I didn’t go to school in the US, but my wife did and says it was not like that in her day at a public school. Needless to say, she doesn’t have time to eat her lunch, so it inevitably comes home every day in its entirety except for quickly consumed items like yogurt and hummus. I have been considering experiments to try to figure out what’s going on, because the school administration denies this is the case but other parents confirm that their kids report the same thing. Any ideas for a good investigative method?

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