Mindful Eating - A Solution To Over Eating or Snacking
Do you find yourself snacking without even being aware you are eating? Summary: This article introduces mindful eating and its benefits.
Find out how eating slowly and with full awareness helps you improve your diet, digestion and overall enjoyment from eating.
- Activities like working or driving while you are eating can affect your digestion in a negative way - mindful eating results in healthy digestion and appreciation for our food - mindful eating as a powerful tool for binge eaters - mindful eating can reduce overeating by giving our body the needed time to properly intake and digest the food In times of laptops, tablets and smartphones it is very tempting to work or surf the internet while eating.
Sitting at a dinner table with nothing but our food is getting less and less common.
But is this really a bad development? Isn't the dinner table tradition simply an excuse for parents to spend some offline time with their children? 'Mindful eating' involves having your meals or snacks with full awareness.
The consumer's attention should rest on all characteristics of his or her food and the present moment sensations that arise while eating.
'Eating' itself suddenly seems like a very general term, as it includes so many sub-steps: picking up your food, smelling it, placing it in your mouth, tasting, chewing, swallowing.
Taking each step one at a time with full awareness of the sensations your body is experiencing.
By eating mindfully, we can ensure that our brains have enough time to register the satiety or fullness induced by our food.
This process takes approximately 20 minutes, a time span in which some of us may have already eaten too much in a hurry.
Another important aspect is that by engaging in other activities while eating, we may inhibit our digestion and thus not get the maximum nutritive value out of our food.
It is important to take the proper amount of time to chew and swallow the food allowing the digestive system to intake the food at a natural rate.
Taking sufficient time and fully appreciating your food is a good strategy to start on eating mindfully.
Mindful eating is gaining importance in the field of treatment of binge eating and has already proven to be as effective as a standard psychoeducational treatment.
In general, mindful eating can be beneficial for anyone who would like to improve their eating habits.
It makes us appreciate our food more completely and it reduces our tendency to snack for reasons other than the physical sensation of being hungry.
Find out how eating slowly and with full awareness helps you improve your diet, digestion and overall enjoyment from eating.
- Activities like working or driving while you are eating can affect your digestion in a negative way - mindful eating results in healthy digestion and appreciation for our food - mindful eating as a powerful tool for binge eaters - mindful eating can reduce overeating by giving our body the needed time to properly intake and digest the food In times of laptops, tablets and smartphones it is very tempting to work or surf the internet while eating.
Sitting at a dinner table with nothing but our food is getting less and less common.
But is this really a bad development? Isn't the dinner table tradition simply an excuse for parents to spend some offline time with their children? 'Mindful eating' involves having your meals or snacks with full awareness.
The consumer's attention should rest on all characteristics of his or her food and the present moment sensations that arise while eating.
'Eating' itself suddenly seems like a very general term, as it includes so many sub-steps: picking up your food, smelling it, placing it in your mouth, tasting, chewing, swallowing.
Taking each step one at a time with full awareness of the sensations your body is experiencing.
By eating mindfully, we can ensure that our brains have enough time to register the satiety or fullness induced by our food.
This process takes approximately 20 minutes, a time span in which some of us may have already eaten too much in a hurry.
Another important aspect is that by engaging in other activities while eating, we may inhibit our digestion and thus not get the maximum nutritive value out of our food.
It is important to take the proper amount of time to chew and swallow the food allowing the digestive system to intake the food at a natural rate.
Taking sufficient time and fully appreciating your food is a good strategy to start on eating mindfully.
Mindful eating is gaining importance in the field of treatment of binge eating and has already proven to be as effective as a standard psychoeducational treatment.
In general, mindful eating can be beneficial for anyone who would like to improve their eating habits.
It makes us appreciate our food more completely and it reduces our tendency to snack for reasons other than the physical sensation of being hungry.