Mindless Eating

How Do You Do Food?

Lisa Turner | Posted 05.30.2012

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Lisa Turner

Develop a healthy relationship with your body. Take the act of eating out of the mind and back to the belly, and trust the wisdom of your body to know when, what and how much to eat.

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If Your Spouse Snores, Will You Gain Weight?

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 05.28.2012

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Judith J. Wurtman, PhD

Although snoring spouses have not made it onto the list of common causes of weight gain, sleeplessness, whether caused by a noisy bed partner, 3 a.m. anxiety, jet lag or shift work, may have a disastrous effect on eating.

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Isn't It Time for Personalized Diets?

Judith J. Wurtman, PhD | Posted 05.20.2012

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Judith J. Wurtman, PhD

There are choices for almost everything these days. Call the customer service department of your cell provider or cable company and you will be offered (in a maddeningly slow computerized voice) at least a half a dozen options from which to choose.

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How Eating Off A Red-Colored Dish Could Help You With Serving Sizes

| Posted 01.20.2012

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By Katherine Harmon (Click here for the original article and podcast) One reason Americans have such a huge weight problem? Our dishware. When fac...

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Freshman 15: Fact or Fiction?

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 01.04.2012

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Dr. Susan Albers

A recent study from Ohio State reconfirms that the freshman fifteen may actually be a "myth." Can you hear a collective sigh of relief from students all over the country?

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7 Ways To Stop Eating Out Of Boredom

Posted 12.29.2011

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Do you ever have those days when you feel like a bottomless pit and snack on everything in sight? Me too. I know my body sometimes requires more c...

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6 Ways To Avoid Mindless Eating

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 12.06.2011

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If you're not hungry, why are you eating? Hm. We can find ourselves in situations where we are eating for no reason -- what has been coined "min...

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We Are More Likely To Eat What We See First: Study

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 11.28.2011

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What you see first is what you eat first, a new study suggests. Cornell University researchers found that we are three times more likely to eat the...

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Mindless Eating Could Be Triggered By Your Environment: Study

The Huffington Post | Amanda Chan | Posted 11.02.2011

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A new study reveals that taste is not the only factor when it comes to chowing down -- the environment in which we eat the food could could also make ...

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7 Healthful Eating Tips For New Moms

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Susan Albers

Here are seven common traps new moms fall into that lead them right into mindless eating. See if these habits sound familiar.

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Was Lady Gaga's Raw Meat Dress Really So Strange?

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Susan Albers

The vivid visual image of wearing what you eat gave many people a moment of pause to reconsider their food choices. What if all the food you ate today was glued to the outside of your body?

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Overcoming Mageirocophobia -- the Fear of Cooking

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mindful Eating, Cooking, Mindless Eating, Rachael Ray, Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating Habits, Weight Management, Food News
Dr. Susan Albers

If you can read, you can cook. So, why is it that so many very intelligent men and women get overwhelmed, throw their hands up in the air and deem themselves incapable in the kitchen?

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Is Television Priming Us To Be Fat?

Carole Carson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Carole Carson

Subliminal messages surround us, and many are innocuous or even helpful. But other subliminal messages can harm our health.

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Update USDA Food Pyramid

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Eating changes both body and mind, the total of who we are. What we eat and how much we eat changes who we are physiologically. Why we eat and how we ...

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Mindful Eating: A Healthy Take on Traditional Cultural Foods

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Susan Albers

This is where mindful eating can be helpful. You can still eat foods important to your culture but in a new way. It is about savoring them, eating mindful portions and balancing it in your life.

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What da Vinci's Last Supper Reveals About Mindless Eating

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Susan Albers

Consider how scientists might evaluate what we eat 200 years from now. What would today's commercials or pictures of people eating tell your great grandchildren about the way we eat?

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Pavlovian Sleight-of-Words

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

This is is the process of de-conditioning/re-conditioning that might come in handy with the problem of overeating. That's right, dear reader, I am still writing about mindless eating and how to make it mindful.

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Ahimsa Eating Re-Considered

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Zero-sum" is when one's needs cancel out another's needs. I learned the meaning of this violent doctrine as a Russian kid playing "nozhichki." Nozhi...

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Open Your Mind Before You Open Your Mouth

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Mind is a zoolander: a fashionable savage hypnotized by society to run random programs without self-awareness.

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The Yoga of Eating: Holding The Edge

Lisa Turner | Posted 11.17.2011

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Lisa Turner

There is great wisdom at the edge. It teaches us not only what we're capable of physically, but also what our patterns of reactions are, mentally and emotionally.

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Mindfully Choose What You Will Mindlessly Overeat

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

If you resent portion control and calorie counting, you can overeat and not bother with being mindful of fullness as long as what you overeat is low in caloric density.

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Photoshopping Hall of Shame

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Susan Albers

Welcome to the photoshop hall of shame courtesy of Newsweek entitled, "Unattainable Beauty" (Click Here). It's likely that you heard about the Ralph L...

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Movie Therapy For Mindless Eaters

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 11.17.2011

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Dr. Susan Albers

Movies aren't just entertaining. Every now and then a good flick can teach you something important and transform your feelings and actions.

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Top 10 Reasons to Put Your Scale in the Trash

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Susan Albers

If you have a love-hate relationship with your scale, I highly recommend that you break up with your scale once and for all. Throw away your scale. Hide it. Tuck it into the back corner of your basement.

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Mindful Eating Meditation Inspired by Rg Veda

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

Mindful eating - to borrow another metaphor from Indian (Buddhist) philosophy - is an opportunity to glimpse your Original Face.

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