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. 

The frontal lobes of the brain (forebrain) is where we make all our decisions. Neuroscientists refer to these decision-making processes as "executive functions". We may not be executives at a global corporation, but our personal success in life definitely depends on the quality of our daily decisions.