By Christine Louise Hohlbaum
Meditation is typically something you think of as a strategy for quieting the mind. But apparently, it can quiet your appetite, too.
According to recent research reported by the Harvard Health Letter, mindful eating can lead to weight loss and an increase in food enjoyment.
No kidding. Slurping in front of the tube isn’t the most mindful way to ingest your food (and I’m guilty of it sometimes, too). Apparently, there is indeed a mind-gut connection. It takes about twenty minutes for the gut to tell the mind it is full. So people who slow down their food ingestion actually eat less.
Like the fork method that I laid out in The Power of Slow (in which you actually use utensils to eat, placing your fork down between bites), the Harvard Health Letter suggests... More...
