5 strategies: How to Eat Mindfully AND If you only do 1 thing…
- Eat when you are hungry
- Make eating an event
- Enjoy your food
- Mind your manners
- Stop before it’s too late
If you only do one thing, quit sugar. We’ve known for a long time that sugar contribues to disorders like obesity and diabetes, and that a diet high in refined sugar reduces spatial-learning performance and the ability to make new memories. And yet, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on average Americans eat nearly their own body weight in added sugar each year. Too much sugar, as Caroline Aprovian, of the Boston Medical Center Nutrition and Weight Management Center, puts it, “is a poison.”
Adapted from Diana Cullum-Dugan’s seven-week seminar, regularly held in Watertown, and BostonMagazine.com article authored by Rachel Slade.
