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Lifestyle modifications are cornerstones of recommended management for patients who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Recommendations typically include avoidance of chocolate, fatty meals, peppermint, citrus, carbonated beverages, alcohol, and postprandial recumbency. Despite the plethora of recommendations, few data actually show that any of these modifications affect patient outcomes. In this study, researchers investigated the effect of yet another lifestyle modification on induction of GERD: reducing the speed of food intake.
Twenty healthy volunteers were asked on two separate days in random order to eat the same standard meal over a period of 5 or 30 minutes. A single investigator who was blinded to the meal ingestion…