Mindful eating through slowing down and paying attention to hunger and fullness cues can help avoid food comas according to a study that sent text messages with mindful eating tips to participants. The study found those who received the text tips reported higher average hunger but also more satisfaction after meals compared to a control group. Participants felt the text messages could help them maintain mindful eating habits long-term.

1. Mindful Eating...
Saving the World
from one
Food Coma
at a Time
Rachel Cassinat
SMS Intervention
NTR 598
September 25th
, 2013

2. Pre-Intervention Behavior
• PRE-Intervention Behavior
– “How do you usually feel after a meal?”
• Make one meal a day a mindful one
– Be self-aware of your hunger cues and fullness
– SLOW DOWN
– Enjoy your food
• Control vs. Treatment
– Text message

3. Results and Enlightening Findings
• Control
– Basic text replies
• Treatment
– “Novels”
• Hunger scale vs. satisfaction scale
– Average hunger scale higher for treatment, but...

4. POST-Intervention
Behavior/Experience
• Final texts to control and treatment groups
– Control vs. treatment
– How to improve the intervention
– Would a text help you keep doing the behavior, be
short lived, or not help at all?
• My experience