Anecdotally, I think chewing more brings satiation sooner, so you eat less. When we're really famished, we eat fast with less mastication. It's like you forget

Anecdotally, I think chewing more brings satiation sooner, so you eat less. When we're really famished, we eat fast with less mastication. It's like you forget to chew. Consciously chewing more might bring you out of that devouring mode. Just speculating.