Most people don’t think about what they’re eating — they’re focusing on the next bite. I’ve worked with lots of obese people — you’d think they’d enjoy food. But a lot of them say they haven’t really tasted what they’ve been shoveling down for years.
Most people don’t think about what they’re eating — they’re focusing on the next bite. I’ve worked with lots of obese people — you’d think they’d enjoy food. But a lot of them say they haven’t really tasted what they’ve been shoveling down for years.Sasha Loring, a psychotherapist at Duke Integrative Medicine. (Via WSJ.)
Loring has conducted trials that suggest that teaching people “mindful eating,” a practice with roots in Buddhism, can result in a “life-changing” approach to food — and sustainable weight loss (though, as good doctors, they don’t emphasize the latter).
I am scarfing down prunes as I write this.
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