A May 25 article by Star Lawrence (with Charlotte Grayson, M.D.) of WebMD Medical News about a device designed to make overeaters take smaller bites includes an ACSH reference (see http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/87/99579.htm?printing=true):
"Isn't this kind of an expensive way to do it?" asks Ruth Kava, PhD, RD, director of nutrition of the American Council on Science and Health in New York City. She semi-seriously recommends the Fletcher method of prolonged chewing called "Fletcherizing." Horace Fletcher was a 19th century health guru who suggested chewing everything a hundred times until it turned to liquid and "swallowed itself."
"Even chewing everything 15 times would slow you down and make your food easier to digest," Kava says. And don't forget exercise, she says.
