Mindful Eating for Weight Management: A Review and Reflection on the Literature

Mindfulness-based approaches have become popular in recent years. This literature review and reflection explores mindful eating as an intervention for weight management, and compares this approach to other traditional behavioral approaches in the context of psychological research. In order to determine the effectiveness and potential impact of mindful eating approaches for weight management, this review was conducted to focus exclusively on studies of mindfulness-based interventions that include food related content, and target a general population of primarily overweight and obese adults. In addition, the review includes an in-depth discussion on the limitations of both the research literature, and mindful eating as an intervention - followed by possible solutions and future directions.Master of Public Healt