New research offers surprising insights into why some people just never put on weight, and it isn’t because they hit the gym.
and led by Professor John Speakman of Aberdeen University’s School of Biological Sciences, and the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology in China, has blown that theory apart.
The results came as “a big surprise”, Mr Speakman said. “The classic explanation of the healthy, underweight individual is that they can eat what they want and then burn this off, somehow. So, we expected to find just that: high levels of food intake, matched by high levels of physical activity.” But, he says, “this seems to be a sort of urban myth”.
What’s more, people who deliberately chose to slow down their eating speed lost weight and had slimmer waists. Why? Eating slowly causes your body to produce more “feeling full” hormones. They then compared them to 173 other people with a normal BMI of between 21 to 24. The research used sophisticated and highly accurate measures of energy in versus energy out and found that, on average, healthy-but-naturally-skinny people who didn’t restrict their eating ate about 12 per cent less than normal-weight people.
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