Intuitive Eating, Diet Composition, and The Meaning of Food in Healthy Weight Promotion

Smith, TeriSue; Hawks, Steven R.

doi:10.1080/19325037.2006.10598892

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“…114,115 Mindful eating programs represent a promising approach to youth obesity given that they have been shown to address key psychosocial variables associated with treatment outcomes and seek to provide a balanced, integrated approach to the prevention of weight-related problems in youth. The lack of long-term effectiveness regarding traditional weight loss interventions, coupled with the prioritization of multicomponent treatment programs, and the successful integration of mindfulness techniques with families point toward the potential of this novel, alternative model that could help augment and advance youth obesity treatment efforts.…”

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A Conceptual Framework for the Expansion of Behavioral Interventions for Youth Obesity: A Family-Based Mindful Eating Approach

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Background: Currently, over 30% of US youth are overweight and 1 in 6 have metabolic syndrome, making youth obesity one of the major global health challenges of the 21st century. Few enduring treatment strategies have been identified in youth populations, and the majority of standard weight loss programs fail to adequately address the impact of psychological factors on eating behavior and the beneficial contribution of parental involvement in youth behavior change.Methods: A critical need exists to expand treatment development efforts beyond traditional education and cognitive-behavioral programs and explore alternative treatment models for youth obesity. Meditation-based mindful eating programs represent a unique and novel scientific approach to the current youth obesity epidemic given that they address key psychological variables affecting weight.Results: The recent expansion of mindfulness programs to include family relationships shows the immense potential for broadening the customarily individual focus of this intervention to include contextual factors thought to influence youth health outcomes.Conclusions: This article provides an overview of how both mindful eating and family systems theory fits within a conceptual framework in order to guide development of a comprehensive family-based mindful eating program for overweight youth.

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A Conceptual Framework for the Expansion of Behavioral Interventions for Youth Obesity: A Family-Based Mindful Eating Approach

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“…Food may become associated with different areas of the house, and the person may become sensitised to numerous environmental triggers to eating. As previously mentioned, eating while standing in the kitchen may increase the speed of eating, which reduces the awareness of the eating process, ultimately reducing the enjoyment of eating while increasing the number of kilojoules consumed (Maruyama et al, 2008;Sasaki, Katagiri, Tsuji, Shimoda, & Amano, 2003;Smith & Hawks, 2006, Wansink, 2006.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Slow and intuitive eating causes satiety cues to commence earlier resulting in more physical and emotional satisfaction after consuming fewer kilojoules. Healthcare professionals need to educate people about the benefits of eating slowly and intuitively as these behaviours have been associated with lower BMI and higher levels of enjoyment and pleasure of food (Maruyama et al, 2008;Sasaki, et al, 2003;Smith & Hawks, 2006). outdated, these guidelines lack sufficient information about the role of non-hungry eating (external and emotional eating) and overeating, and the benefits of using the body's physiological responses to hunger and satiety to determine food intake.…”

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“…For example, overweight females may begin with restricting their food intake (e.g., start a new diet, start skipping meals), which leaves them susceptible to emotional and external eating when they finally break their restrictive intake. Food eaten in response to emotional or environmental triggers is usually consumed rapidly, which can delay feelings of fullness (Maruyama et al, 2008;Smith & Hawks, 2006;Wansink, 2006). Overeating often results, which may trigger thoughts of guilt, shame, and disgust.…”

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Understanding obesity: Psychological cues and antecedents of eating behaviour

Cranston¹

2007

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Obesity has been described by the World Health Organisation as a global epidemic, and is perceived as a major health concern due to the associated medical, psychosocial, and economic problems. One approach of understanding obesity is directed towards exploring the psychological and social determinants underlying nonhungry eating (NHE) (eating without physical sensations associated with hunger) and overeating (eating past the physiological sensations of fullness). The immediate psychosocial cues that trigger NHE and overeating, along with the psychosocial antecedents that influence NHE and overeating have been found to be important contributors to obesity.This research incorporated two studies. Study 1 involved self-report questionnaires comparing the antecedents and cues that influence NHE and overeating among men and women who were obese, overweight, and of a healthy weight (HWR). Study 2 adopted a case study approach to explore individual antecedents and triggers of NHE and overeating among three obese participants.Findings indicated that HWR, overweight, and obese people differed in the antecedents and cues that influenced their eating behaviours, which were particularly borne out in quantitative data. In addition, females and males differed in their reported antecedents and cues. For example, across all three weight groups, more females than males were restricting their food intake in attempt to lose weight, which can result in future NHE and overeating. In addition, overweight females reported the highest levels of non-hungry eating, emotional eating and external eating, compared to all other groups. Males of a healthy weight reported the lowest amounts of both NHE and restrained eating of the six groups (crossing 2 x gender and 3 x weight groups).Interestingly, eating in response to external cues was least common in overweight ii males. Compared to the other weight groups, more overweight participants reported they ate quickly and at predetermined times, and that food had been used as a reward or to soothe pain throughout childhood. Overweight participants ate more frequently in response to positive emotions and experienced more negative emotions after overeating than healthy weight or obese participants.Although distinct patterns of eating behaviour were observed for males and females within the separate weight categories, variability was also evident within the groups, suggesting that despite having similar body mass indexes, antecedents and cues that maintain individuals' weights vary.Results of the qualitative study also highlight the diverse cues and antecedents that can contribute to an individual becoming and maintaining an obese weight. What is clear from both studies is that no one eating pattern typifies a particular weight group, in the case of healthy, overweight, or obese individuals. In addition, people who are overweight need to become a priority for obesity research, in order to increase the understanding of the psychology of why and how people transgress from an overweight to an ob...

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“…It is debated as to if individuals who allow themselves to eat in harmony with personal food desires actually have lower diet quality. 20 However, limited research exists on non-diet approaches and diet quality. The research that does exist is mixed and shows that nondiet interventions have positive associations with diet quality and no association between diet quality and intuitive eating.…”

Section: Intuitive Eatingmentioning

confidence: 99%