Most of us have had someone tell us to eat more slowly.

Usually they say eating slower will let us feel full before we have eaten too much. We can wolf down so many calories so quickly that we still think we're hungry even though our stomach is full! So, it makes sense to eat more leisurely meals.

But does eating more slowly deter us from snacking between meals? Research suggests it may not. Researchers fed the exact same meal to 38 men and women, ages 24 to 30, on two different days. One day they got the food all at once and finished eating within 30 minutes. The next time, food was presented in a staggered manner with up to 25 minutes between courses. 

Have you noticed how everyone is getting fatter? Nearly two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese. I think we need to begin to use the words "glutton" and "gluttony" more. 

Gluttony was one of the church's seven deadly sins two or three hundred years ago. The entire list includes: Lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. Gluttony includes more than eating too much food.  

Thomas Aquinas expanded the common view of gluttony to incude an excessive anticipation of meals, which is craving for food. Aquinas developed a list of six ways to commit gluttony including: