Faster and Louder Music Makes You Eat and Drink More

Thedailybeast.com has this story, "How restaurants get you drunk." I had no idea, but this explains why more restaurants seem louder.

• In the mid-1980s, researchers at Fairfield University demonstrated that people increased their rate of chewing by almost a third when listening to faster, louder music, accelerating from 3.83 bites a minute to 4.4 bites a minute.