Tag Search - "Mindful Eating"

Featured: Burnout at work leads to emotional eating

Work related stress and burnout increases emotional and uncontrolled eating in women. Managing work stress may be critical to healthy dietary changes.

Posted on Mon, 27 Feb 12

Eating mindfully reduces emotional eating and abdominal fat

By teaching people to eat mindfully and pay more attention to physical sensations such as hunger, fullness and cravings researchers have been able to reduce stress based emotional eating and abdominal fat independent of any dietary or exercise advice.

Posted on Mon, 23 Aug 10

Eat with your eyes, and dont trust your gut feelings

Are your eyes bigger than your stomach? Apparently not. Relying on feeling full, as opposed to visual cues such as an empty plate, could cause you to overeat considerably.

Posted on Wed, 12 May 10

Use your dinner plate to lose weight

Everyone knows they should eat more vegetables but the reality is that most people do not even meet recommended intakes. Changing the way you serve meals is an effective solution to increasing your vegetable intake which may in turn improve your health and help with weight management.

Posted on Thu, 25 Feb 10

Food labelling: information or propaganda?

What if everything you had been told about nutrition was wrong? The health claims on the labels of processed and packaged foods are often misleading and designed to trick you into eating food that is bad for your health, even so called health foods.

Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 09

Your unconscious mind is supersizing you

Did you know that within a few decades dinner plate size has increased by almost 40%, the availability of larger serving sizes has increased 10-fold and that the volume of serving sizes in restaurants can differ in calories as much as 250%? Portion distortion, the tendency to overeat due to underestimating food serving size, has a strong influence on food intake and has been implicated as a major factor in the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity [1-2].