(U.S. News & World Report) [B]eing more mindful about your eating—in other words, paying close attention to what you are putting in your mouth and how it makes you feel—may be a method that can help with weight loss.

Mindfulness wasn't developed in a psych lab but instead traces its origins to Buddhism. In the medical and behavioral realm, it's been looked at as a way to promote better health in general, lower stress, decrease anxiety, and alter unwanted behaviors, like drinking too much—or overeating…

[P]articipants in a mindful eating course lost an average of about 10 pounds over a year, more than seen in trials of weight loss drugs. A control group lost a similar amount of weight, but the mindfulness group saw greater reductions in cardiovascular risk factors.

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