Dr. Elissa Epel
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
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How do we really fine tune our ability to determine if it's a good time to eat and to restrain and inhibit overeating?
That's not easy.
We all struggle with that.
We know that it's normal for stress to trigger our strong drive to get dense calories.
Sweets and fats definitely are our biological signal for dense calories.
So how do we get beyond that?
So for years, we've been training people in mindful eating and these mini meditations right before they
eat to really discern whether they are going to choose to eat and what they're going to choose to eat and how much.
So really helping people in a sense, develop some metacognition and control.
It helps, mindful eating helps.
It tends to help reduce dysregulated eating and
insulin and glucose spikes.
And it doesn't necessarily help with weight loss, but it helps with inner health and metabolic health.
That's what we care most about.
That's what matters most for health, not necessarily what the scale says, but rather how stable our glucose is.
We wanted to test if mindful eating could help women during pregnancy, a time when there are very strong cravings and a time when it's very easy to gain excess weight, more weight than is healthy and needed.
So we...
we enrolled some volunteers, women who were already overweight and were early in their pregnancy.
We found 200 pregnant women and randomized them in different ways, different groups of 10, to a mindful eating and stress reduction group or to treatment as usual, a control group, which is just their usual medical care.
And we found that
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