Фокус on Your Digestion with Mindful Eating

Advocates of ‘mindful eating’ would say that many people have forgotten how to eat properly. They would say also that there are too many distractions at meal times and the modern tendency to ‘graze’ on packaged and fast food is leading to an obesity and diabetes epidemic. It is hard to argue against this common sense diagnosis when we see; commuters eating one-handed, coffee and donuts, while in traffic at breakfast time, or TV’s taking our minds to issues and countries far from our digestion system at dinner time. Mindful eating has a solid basis in science too.

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A good definition of mindful eating is ‘paying attention to all aspects of the things you eat and the cues your body gives you as you eat’. It is definitely counter-cultural in America today with our fast food, convenience shopping, multi food miles and marketing mad society. However, the benefits of removing all distractions to фокус on meals and listening to your inner gut feelings as you eat, could bring you substantial lifelong benefits such as…

A lower risk of type 2 diabetes. Fast eating is a symptom of unmindful eating. Fast eating is also a high risk factor for type 2 diabetes. This is proven in a recent study published in the journal ‘Clinical Nutrition’. Fast eating is definitely correlated with the conditions of overweight and obesity. time how long it takes you to eat a normal meal. Consciously set yourself a longer target time and chew more often between forks full. You will be pleasantly surprised at how quickly your body tells you, ’enough is enough’.

A lower body weight, body mass index and avoidance of obesity in children. Binge eating can be a problem for all ages and a bad patterns set in childhood can lead to a lifetime of other problems. A report published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology concluded that parents trained in mindful eating ideas, for example only eating when you are hungry and listening to you body when it knows it is full, helps their 8 to 12 year olds avoid the binge eating vicious cycle.