Mindfulness in Eating Pays the Body Big Dividends

By: Alison Pearce Stevens

Seventh-grade students at McLean School in Potomac, Md., unwrap a piece of chocolate.

“Pick it up and hold it in your hand,” says Frankie Engelking. “What do you feel?” she asks. “Think about where this chocolate may have come from. Close your eyes and gently smell it.”

“This is so hard,” one student says.

“When can we eat it?” asks another.

But they can’t eat it just yet. . . . .