Effects of Mindful Eating on Delay and Probability Discounting for Food in Food-Insecure Women
Additional Funding Sources
The project described was supported by the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program through the U.S. Department of Education under Award No. P217A170273. Funding was also provided by NIH R15 AT009248: NCCIH.
Presentation Date
7-2020
Abstract
Obesity has been an ever-prevalent problem for America; obesity-related health issues include forms of cancer, heart diseases, gastrointestinal complications, and diabetes. However, there is no single answer for the pandemic. Biochemically, eating ceases when we get full due to neurochemicals that signal satiation (i.e. ghrelin leptin). However, when people mindlessly eat, these signals tend to be ignored as a function of impulse control. Conversely, mindful eating can help increase impulse control by allowing eating to be a meditative and purposeful. As such, we examined how delay discounting and probability discounting as measurements of impulse can be reduced using mindful eating techniques. Participants were split into three groups: participants that were guided and taught on how to be mindful, those that simply watched a video, and control. Our measurement tools for impulse consisted of delay discounting tasks and probability discounting tasks.
Effects of Mindful Eating on Delay and Probability Discounting for Food in Food-Insecure Women
Obesity has been an ever-prevalent problem for America; obesity-related health issues include forms of cancer, heart diseases, gastrointestinal complications, and diabetes. However, there is no single answer for the pandemic. Biochemically, eating ceases when we get full due to neurochemicals that signal satiation (i.e. ghrelin leptin). However, when people mindlessly eat, these signals tend to be ignored as a function of impulse control. Conversely, mindful eating can help increase impulse control by allowing eating to be a meditative and purposeful. As such, we examined how delay discounting and probability discounting as measurements of impulse can be reduced using mindful eating techniques. Participants were split into three groups: participants that were guided and taught on how to be mindful, those that simply watched a video, and control. Our measurement tools for impulse consisted of delay discounting tasks and probability discounting tasks.