ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
Can Mindfulness Address Maladaptive Eating Behaviors? Why Traditional Diet Plans Fail and How New Mechanistic Insights May Lead to Novel Interventions.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05347914 (Mobile Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Non-Homeostatic Food Cravings in Emotional Eaters), which is not on this map. Cited by 30 papers.
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Mobile Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Non-Homeostatic Food Cravings in Emotional Eaters: Research Pilot
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30 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Internalized weight stigma and psychological distress mediate the association of perceived weight stigma with food addiction among young adults: A cross-sectional study.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Development of Master Chef: A Curriculum to Promote Nutrition and Mindful Eating among College Students.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- Obesity mechanism after hypothalamic damage: Cohort analysis of neuroimaging, psychological, cognitive, and clinical phenotyping data.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Exploring the relationship between orthorexia nervosa, mindful eating and guilt and shame.Health psychology report · 2023Article
- Taking a closer look at mindful eating: incremental validity and importance of subfacets.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
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- Mindful acceptance, not awareness, associated with lower food susceptibility.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Observational
- Flourishing as a guide to intervention: a national multicenter study of general surgery residents.Global surgical education : journal of the Association for Surgical Education · 2022Article
- Real-time fluctuations in mindful awareness, willingness, and values clarity, and their associations with craving and dietary lapse among those seeking weight loss.Journal of contextual behavioral science · 2021Article
- Does self-compassion help to deal with dietary lapses among overweight and obese adults who pursue weight-loss goals?British journal of health psychology · 2021Article
- Adolescent eating behaviors in the UAE: Time to intervene.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2021Article
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Abstract
Emotional and other maladaptive eating behaviors develop in response to a diversity of triggers, from psychological stress to the endless external cues in our modern food environment. While the standard approach to food- and weight-related concerns has been weight-loss through dietary restriction, these interventions have produced little long-term benefit, and may be counterproductive. A growing understanding of the behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms that underpin habit formation may explain why this approach has largely failed, and pave the way for a new generation of non-pharmacologic interventions. Here, we first review how modern food environments interact with human biology to promote reward-related eating through associative learning, i.e., operant conditioning. We also review how operant conditioning (positive and negative reinforcement) cultivates habit-based reward-related eating, and how current diet paradigms may not directly target such eating. Further, we describe how mindfulness training that targets reward-based learning may constitute an appropriate intervention to rewire the learning process around eating. We conclude with examples that illustrate how teaching patients to tap into and act on intrinsic (e.g., enjoying healthy eating, not overeating, and self-compassion) rather than extrinsic reward mechanisms (e.g., weighing oneself), is a promising new direction in improving individuals' relationship with food.
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