Mindfulness meditation practice and executive functioning: Breaking down the benefit

SN Gallant - Consciousness and cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on evidence for mindfulness meditation-related benefits to executive
functioning, processes important for much of human volitional behaviour. Miyake et al.(2000) …

The role of emotion regulation in childhood obesity: implications for prevention and treatment

E Aparicio, J Canals, V Arija, S De Henauw… - Nutrition research …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Stress and negative emotions pose a major threat to public health, by increasing the risk of
obesity. Since the management process for emotions (emotion regulation; ER) is developed …

Acceptance‐based versus standard behavioral treatment for obesity: Results from the mind your health randomized controlled trial

EM Forman, ML Butryn, SM Manasse, RD Crosby… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To evaluate the efficacy, as well as potential moderators and mediators, of a
revised acceptance‐based behavioral treatment (ABT) for obesity, relative to standard …

Mindfulness may moderate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and physical activity: A cross-sectional study

A Ruffault, M Bernier, N Juge, JF Fournier - Mindfulness, 2016 - Springer
This study aims to characterize the relationships between intrinsic motivation toward
physical activity, mindfulness, and physical activity level. We measured self-reported …

Emotional eating is associated with weight loss success among adults enrolled in a weight loss program

A Braden, SW Flatt, KN Boutelle, D Strong… - Journal of behavioral …, 2016 - Springer
To examine associations between decreased emotional eating and weight loss success;
and whether participation in a behavioral weight loss intervention was associated with a …

A randomized trial of an acceptance‐based behavioral intervention for weight loss in people with high internal disinhibition

J Lillis, HM Niemeier, JG Thomas, J Unick, KM Ross… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To determine whether an acceptance‐based behavioral intervention (ABBI)
produces better weight losses than standard behavioral treatment (SBT) among individuals …

Body and mind: Mindfulness helps consumers to compensate for prior food intake by enhancing the responsiveness to physiological cues

E Van De Veer, E Van Herpen… - Journal of Consumer …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
External cues regularly override physiological cues in food consumption resulting in
mindless eating. In a series of experiments, this study shows that mindfulness, an enhanced …

Mindful decision making and inhibitory control training as complementary means to decrease snack consumption

EM Forman, JA Shaw, SP Goldstein, ML Butryn… - Appetite, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective Obesity is largely attributable to excess caloric intake, in particular from “junk”
foods, including salty snack foods. Evidence suggests that neurobiological preferences to …

A mindfulness-based intervention to control weight after bariatric surgery: Preliminary results from a randomized controlled pilot trial

SA Chacko, GY Yeh, RB Davis, CC Wee - Complementary therapies in …, 2016 - Elsevier
Objective This study aimed to develop and test a novel mindfulness-based intervention
(MBI) designed to control weight after bariatric surgery. Design Randomized, controlled pilot …

Mindfulness and coping with stress: Do levels of perceived stress matter?

JN Donald, PWB Atkins - Mindfulness, 2016 - Springer
Few studies have explored whether mindfulness facilitates more adaptive coping with stress,
and the evidence for this is mixed. It may be that mindfulness influences coping responses …