他们记录下了受试者每一口的食量大小、每一口饭咀嚼的时间总长、咀嚼的总次数和吃完整顿饭所要花的时间。

There was a large variation between men and women on every parameter, they found.

他们发现每一个参数上男女差异都很大。

Men typically take larger bites with more ‘chewing power’, which means they consume their meal more quickly than women.

男性通常每一口吃得更多，嚼得也更有力，所以他们吃饭吃得更快。

Though women were found to have the same chewing pace as men, they chewed each mouthful more times, slowing down the total time it took them to eat their meal.

尽管女性咀嚼的速度和男性一样，但是女性每一口饭的咀嚼次数更多，所以她们吃饭就吃得更慢。

The study was published in the January issue of the Physiology and Behaviour journal.

这项研究刊登在一月份的《生理学与行为》期刊上。

It flies in the face of an earlier study, by researchers at Nippon Dental University in Tokyo, Japan, which found no difference in how the sexes chewed gum.

这项研究公然挑战了之前来自东京的日本牙科大学研究人员得出的结论，后者发现男女咀嚼口香糖的方式并无不同。

Cary Cooper, professor of organizational psychology and health at Lancaster University said there was not only a difference in how the sexes chew, but between different types of people.

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