What is mindful eating? Discover 2025's trend transforming food relationships
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Many people have started the new year with a long-standing resolution — to improve their diet. From trying to shift a few pounds to improving your gut health, there are many reasons to enhance the quality of the food we consume. People choose many different ways to do this — from adopting the Mediterranean or keto diet to calorie counting.
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However, another approach is set to take 2025 by storm — mindful eating. This is the new way of eating well but what does it mean?. Here is everything we know. Mindful eating is the practice of being fully present and attentive to the food you consume, moment by moment.
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This approach encourages people to cultivate awareness of their food and the experience it provides, fostering a deeper connection to eating. It aims to help people become more conscious of food choices avoiding eating mindlessly or without intention.
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Unlike calorie counting or tracking macronutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, or proteins, mindful eating focuses on the sensory and emotional aspects of the eating experience. The 3 Rs of mindful eating are Recognise, Respond, and Reflect. Although there is no calorie counting, the way of eating is a technique that is supposed to help you better manage your eating habits.
Mindful eating can be challenging because meals have often become social experiences filled with distractions. From watching television, using computers or phones, and scrolling through social media, to chatting while we eat, we may not be fully aware of what we put into our mouths. This lack of attention makes it easy to overlook the amount of food we are consuming.
