Mindful feeding leads to better eating behavior

Mindful
feeding may help reduce negative eating behaviours such as pickiness, emotional
over-eating or behavioural problems during meal times, according to new
research done by Bowling Green State University, USA. It was found as
hypothesised that authoritative parenting was related to higher rates of mindful
feeding while authoritarian and permissive parenting were related to lower
rates of mindful feeding. Mindful feeding mediated the relation between each
parenting style and each child's eating behavior (i.e., food fussiness,
problematic mealtime behaviors, and emotional overeating). These findings
suggest that that mindful feeding may be a promising new construct, and its
relation to feeding interventions aimed at improving problematic child eating
behaviors should be further evaluated. Mindful parenting improves the quality
of time with the child and interaction is 100 percent focussed than distracted.
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