Mindful eating is not a diet, or about giving up anything at all. It’s about experiencing food more intensely — especially the pleasure of it. You can eat a cheeseburger mindfully, if you wish. You might enjoy it a lot more. Or you might decide, halfway through, that your body has had enough. Or that it really needs some salad.
(via Mindful Eating as Way to Fight Bingeing - NYTimes.com)
Steeped in the Buddhist tradition, mindful eating is paying attention to savoring the food and being grateful for all who contributed to the food we receive.
The research indicates that mindful eating increases happiness and decreases the amounts required for satisfaction. This has large implications (pun intended) for the obesity crisis not plaguing “developed” nations.
