Trial reportScientific reports2024
Mindfulness meditation modulates stress-eating and its neural correlates.
Trial report in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- What helps or hinders adult cancer patients in accepting dietary interventions during chemotherapy? A qualitative synthesis.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of mindfulness-based interventions on food craving in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Review
- Emotional eating behaviour and obesity in adolescents: a cross-sectional survey in Taizhou, China.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- Mindful eating as the next therapeutic frontier in nutritional psychiatry.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Eating behaviors and liver health in metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: the serial mediating roles of Mediterranean diet adherence and adiposity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- From eveningness to food addiction: exploring the roles of night eating syndrome and mindful eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Unveiling overeating patterns within digital longitudinal data on eating behaviors and contexts.NPJ digital medicine · 2025Article
- Review
- Mindfulness training decreases the habituation response to persistent food stimulation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Lifestyle-Related Factors for Improving Diet Quality.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Exploring the relationship between dietary quality, eating behavior, and mental health among young adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Dietary changes as a risk factor and remedy for meditation-related challenges.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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Abstract
Stress-related overeating can lead to excessive weight gain, increasing the risk of metabolic and cardiovascular disease. Mindfulness meditation has been demonstrated to reduce stress and increase interoceptive awareness and could, therefore, be an effective intervention for stress-related overeating behavior. To investigate the effects of mindfulness meditation on stress-eating behavior, meditation-naïve individuals with a tendency to stress-eat (N = 66) participated in either a 31-day, web-based mindfulness meditation training or a health training condition. Behavioral and resting-state fMRI data were acquired before and after the intervention. Mindfulness meditation training, in comparison to health training, was found to significantly increase mindfulness while simultaneously reducing stress- and emotional-eating tendencies as well as food cravings. These behavioral results were accompanied by functional connectivity changes between the hypothalamus, reward regions, and several areas of the default mode network in addition to changes observed between the insula and somatosensory areas. Additional changes between seed regions (i.e., hypothalamus and insula) and brain areas attributed to emotion regulation, awareness, attention, and sensory integration were observed. Notably, these changes in functional connectivity correlated with behavioral changes, thereby providing insight into the underlying neural mechanisms of the effects of mindfulness on stress-eating.Clinical trial on the ISRCTN registry: trial ID ISRCTN12901054.
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