What is Intuitive Eating?

Are you familiar with the concept of intuitive eating? This is a non “diet” approach that instead encourages and guides you to trust your body’s natural hunger and fullness cues.

Rather than labeling foods as heroes or villains, or forcing strict dietary rules, intuitive eating is predicated on building a peaceful, guilt and shame-free relationship with food and respecting your body’s individual needs and requirements.

A 2014 study in the journal Public Health Nutrition based on 17 cross sectional surveys found that intuitive eating is negatively associated with a high body mass index (BMI) and positively associated with various psychological health indicators and may be positively associated with higher quality nutrition and/or eating behaviors.

In other words, from these clinical studies, researchers concluded that intuitive eating results in weight maintenance if not weight loss, more favorable blood pressure and cholesterol levels, and improved mental and emotional health. Next up, check out The 10 Pillars of Intuitive Eating.