how do you train a fast eater to eat slow?

Thats a though one. All I can think of is to make sure that they have a drink to go with their meal or serve food that needs to be cut up and chewed quite a bit before it can be swallowed.

Difficult one, I eat very fast a well, and its not that I don't chew, or appreciate the food, I just get on with it and am usually done ages before everyone else. Sometimes I try to put down my knife and fork between mouthfuls, that can slow me down, or be careful not to load my fork whilst still chewing the previous mouthful, at the end of the day, you may not be able to change much. How about encouraging them to discuss their day more at table, that should slow them down between mouthfulls?

Tell them to put down their fork between bites and not to pick it up again between bites. Make conversation with them while they eat so they have to stop to answer! You don't mention if they have weight problems, but eating more slowly gives the brain time to realize the stomach is full and they will find they get full while eating less food. Tell them you want them to enjoy the taste and texture of the food you have taken time to prepare for them, instead of wolfing it down!

Advise them to take a sip of water between each bite. This actually helps prevent indigestion and acid reflux, but eventually they will get in the habit of it, and hopefully they will naturally slow down and not have to take a sip of water after each bite.

If you do find a solution please let me know. My son likes to inhale his food as well. He is a very gassy child, and I know part of it is due to him not eating properly. I tell him time and again to stop eating so fast, but it goes in one ear and out of the other.

tell him that if he doesn't slow down and eat his food properly that he has to clean the house for a week for every meal that he dicides to inhale his food most men hate cleaning and doing housework so this should work.

I am a fairly fast eater, but did you know that you will gain weight faster than if you eat slowly. Another fact is the danger of choking if you eat the morsel when it is not small enough. I would emphasize the first fact for your daughter and the second for your husband. I do not think you have to chew each bite 20 times (I boarded with a lady who did that and even though I ate fairly fast, I was not speedy Gonzales in the eating department.) However it will become a habit and you will automatically chew each morsel until it is small enough to swallow.

I think the fast and effective way is to ask them use chopsticks while eating. Since they are unfamiliar with the chopsticks, their eating speed will slow down naturally. At the beginning, they are not going to like the idea, they will notice their eating/chewing will slow down...

Try to convince them to at least put down their forks between bites... shoveling food in is one of the worst things you can do to your body... the food that isn't properly broken down will stay in your body and can ferment... that wouldn't feel good st all!