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| - Kids' activities -- from sports to parties --- often are centered around snack times. But is there anything you can do to prevent overeating? The American Council on Exercise suggests: Teaching children to pay attention to their hunger and fullness cues. If your child isn't hungry when a snack is offered, teach the child to politely decline. The child should stop eating the snack when the feeling of fullness sets in. Occasionally, a less-than-healthy snack is OK, as long as you're offering healthy meals at home.
- Mindful eating, excerpts from an article / course by Jan Chozen Bays, M.D., a Zen teacher and pediatrician. Mindful eating is not reading about mindful eating. It is not reading while eating. It is doing the practice of mindful eating. Mindful eating is paying full attention to the events of the internal and external environment, without criticism or judgement, while eating and drinking. Because we are so used to multitasking and to going unconscious while we eat, it is difficult at first to pay full attention to what is happening, say, in the mouth, in a completely continuous manner.
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| - Mindful eating, excerpts from an article / course by Jan Chozen Bays, M.D., a Zen teacher and pediatrician. Mindful eating is not reading about mindful eating. It is not reading while eating. It is doing the practice of mindful eating. Mindful eating is paying full attention to the events of the internal and external environment, without criticism or judgement, while eating and drinking. Because we are so used to multitasking and to going unconscious while we eat, it is difficult at first to pay full attention to what is happening, say, in the mouth, in a completely continuous manner. Just like any other form of meditation, mindful eating involves bringing the mind’s attention to the sensations of eating, then discovering that the mind has wandered off. We find that we are eating while opening our e-mail or while fantasizing about the weekend. We notice this and once again bring the mind back to real time, to the actual sensations of eating. We practice this over and over, until it becomes a wholesome habit. It helps to undertake mindful eating for a specific period of time. One important note. Please take on these practices with a sense of curiosity and good humor. Mindful eating is a meditation and an adventure (not a test). It can open a fascinating world that is hiding, quite literally, right under our noses.
- Kids' activities -- from sports to parties --- often are centered around snack times. But is there anything you can do to prevent overeating? The American Council on Exercise suggests: Teaching children to pay attention to their hunger and fullness cues. If your child isn't hungry when a snack is offered, teach the child to politely decline. The child should stop eating the snack when the feeling of fullness sets in. Occasionally, a less-than-healthy snack is OK, as long as you're offering healthy meals at home.
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