You can learn a lot by watching a 3-year-old eat. She carefully inspects her food, smelling and touching it, before cramming it into her mouth. She pushes away her plate as soon as she’s full. And she doesn’t dive face first into a bag of Oreos because she feels lonely.
In fact, 3-year-olds are masters at “intuitive eating.” New research shows that the practice of mindfully listening to your body’s natural hunger cues—instead of dieting or emotionally eating—can help you lose weight and get healthier. Women who eat intuitively have lower BMIs than nonintuitive eaters; they also report higher levels of appreciation for their own bodies. Other studies show that mindful eating can reduce binge eating and lower cholesterol levels and cardiovascular-disease risk.
Anyone can learn to tap into inner food cues. Follow the links below for step-by-step secrets—and meet three women who lost big.
By Leslie Goldman
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A number of my clients have done well with mindful eating. It’s amazing that people (myself included) have had to work hard at ‘eating’ properly/healthfully/mindfully.
What’s really sad, is that the 3 yr old that you write about will gradually begin to shovel the food in like his/her parents.
Monkey see, monkey do.
More mindful eating info – http://healthhabits.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/how-to-beat-emotional-eating/
Thank you Ms. Goldman for writing such a wonderful article on IE it is the approach that I follow and I hope to see more magazines do articcles about it. I have been doing IE for a little over a year and I feel good about myself and this wonderful change in my life and attitude.
hey thank you mrs. goldman for such a wonderful article
Wonderful article! Thanks a lot.
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i did not recieve any health magazine from you .it is taking long time.