Mindfulness moderates the relationship between emotional eating and body mass index in a sample of people with cystic fibrosis.

CONCLUSIONS: There is a need to develop healthy and effective means of enhancing calorific intake, where this is indicated, adapting mindful eating principles to focus on increasing both self-regulation and pleasure in eating while reducing emotional eating may be one means of doing this.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V, cross-sectional descriptive study.
PMID: 32737812 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - July 30, 2020 Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Egan H, Keyte R, Nash EF, Barrett J, Regan A, Mantzios M Tags: Eat Weight Disord Source Type: research