We doubt most people would find the following headline particularly surprising: "Men and heavy people may outpace women and slim people in eating speed."
Doesn't common sense -- and everyday observation -- indicate that men and heavier individuals tend to eat somewhat faster than women and those who are skinny?
We would think so.
And yet the University of Rhode Island conducted two separate studies to reach those not-so-stunning conclusions.
"At lunch, men ate about 80 calories per minute, while women ate about 52 calories per minute," the Los Angeles Times wrote. The gap was somewhat smaller at breakfast and supper. Meanwhile, "people with a higher body mass index in general ate much faster than those with a lower BMI," the newspaper noted.
Did we really need university studies to tell us that?