Frontiers in Psychology
February 18, 2026
Michail Mantzios, Jean L. Kristeller
Mindfulness-based practices, including mindful eating, have received increasing attention as constructs that enable and support healthier eating behaviours, psychological wellbeing, and foster broader health outcomes across both clinical and non-clinical populations (e. g. , Kristeller, Wolever & Sheets, 2014;Muñoz-Mireles et al. , 2023). The present Research Topic brings together empirical,...
MethodsX
August 9, 2024
Erika Blamires S Porto, Jesus Montero-Marin, Luiz Gustavo Quadros et al.
Introduction: Weight regain after bariatric surgery remains a relevant and worrisome topic, requiring greater understanding and involvement in research into new adjuvant treatments. This study aims to compare the preliminary effectiveness and feasibility of the Mindfulness-Based Health Promotion and Attachment-Based Compassion Therapy programs as opposed to usual treatments (workshops) on the...
Handbook of Positive Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
2023
Seth Zuihō Segall, Jean L. Kristeller
7 citations
Buddhism is a historically and culturally diverse religious and philosophical tradition that offers a positive vision of the human potential for ending suffering and for leading lives that are happy and good. In recent years, ideas drawn from the Buddhist tradition have found their way into Western psychology, informing new ways of understanding and promoting human well-being. These insights...
Frontiers in Psychology
August 14, 2018
Jean L. Kristeller, Kevin D. Jordan
48 citations
In the Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training program (MB-EAT), which lasts 12 sessions, mindfulness practice is taught, mindful eating is cultivated, and self-awareness and self-acceptance are enhanced. An integrative concept is the value in cultivating ‘wisdom’ in regard to creating a new and flexible relationship to eating and food, rather than following externally determined rules and...
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
June 1, 2018
Cassandra Vieten, Barbara A. Laraia, Jean L. Kristeller et al.
79 citations
BACKGROUND: Pregnancy is a time of high risk for excessive weight gain, leading to health-related consequences for mothers and offspring. Theory-based obesity interventions that target proposed mechanisms of biobehavioral change are needed, in addition to simply providing nutritional and weight gain directives. Mindfulness training is hypothesized to reduce stress and non-homeostatic eating...
Trials
May 11, 2018
Vera Salvo, Jean L. Kristeller, Jesus Montero-Marin et al.
Background: Mindfulness has been applied in the United States and Europe to improve physical and psychological health; however, little is known about its feasibility and efficacy in a Brazilian population. Mindfulness may also be relevant in tackling obesity and eating disorders by decreasing binge eating episodes-partly responsible for weight regain for a large number of people-and increasing...
International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine
February 22, 2016
Vernon A Barnes, Jean L. Kristeller
Background: Childhood and adolescent overweight is one of the most important current public health concerns. There is an urgent need to initiate community-based prevention to support healthy eating and physical activity in children. Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT) is a 12-w eek manualized intervention developed by Kristeller et al. that uses focused meditation techniques to...
Journal of Behavioral Medicine
November 12, 2015
Ashley E Mason, Elissa S Epel, Jean L. Kristeller et al.
We evaluated changes in mindful eating as a potential mechanism underlying the effects of a mindfulness-based intervention for weight loss on eating of sweet foods and fasting glucose levels. We randomized 194 obese individuals (M age = 47.0 ± 12.7 years; BMI = 35.5 ± 3.6; 78% women) to a 5.5-month diet-exercise program with or without mindfulness training. The mindfulness group, relative to...
Journal of Obesity
November 1, 2011
Jennifer Daubenmier, Jean L. Kristeller, Frederick M Hecht et al.
Psychological distress and elevated cortisol secretion promote abdominal fat, a feature of the Metabolic Syndrome. Effects of stress reduction interventions on abdominal fat are unknown. Forty-seven overweight/obese women (mean BMI =31.2) were randomly assigned to a 4-month intervention or waitlist group to explore effects of a mindfulness program for stress eating. We assessed mindfulness,...
Eating Disorders
December 21, 2010
Jean L. Kristeller, Ruth Q. Wolever
573 citations
This paper reviews the conceptual foundation of mindfulness-based eating awareness training (MB-EAT). It provides an overview of key therapeutic components as well as a brief review of current research. MB-EAT is a group intervention that was developed for treatment of binge eating disorder (BED) and related issues. BED is marked by emotional, behavioral and physiological disregulation in...
Integrative Cancer Therapies
September 1, 2009
Sanford Nidich, Jeremy Z. Fields, Maxwell V. Rainforth et al.
This single-blind, randomized controlled trial evaluated the impact of the Transcendental Meditation program plus standard care as compared with standard care alone on the quality of life (QOL) of older women (≥55 years) with stage II to IV breast cancer. One hundred and thirty women (mean age = 63.8) were randomly assigned to either experimental (n = 64) or control (n = 66) groups. Functional...
Foundation Books
May 16, 2008
Jean L. Kristeller, Kobita Rikhye
14 citations
Indian psychology has a rich history of meditative and related practises. In fact, most of the contemporary interest in the psychology of meditative practice in the West can be traced back to Hindu-based mantra meditations or to the multitude of Buddhist meditative practises, which have many of their roots in India (Goleman, 1988). Common elements of meditative practice, such as cultivating...
Journal of Psychosomatic Research
April 2008
James Carmody, George Reed, Jean L. Kristeller et al.
Although the relationship between religious practice and health is well established, the relationship between spirituality and health is not as well studied. The objective of this study was to ascertain whether participation in the mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program was associated with increases in mindfulness and spirituality, and to examine the associations between mindfulness,...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
June 2, 2005
Jean L. Kristeller, Thomas J. Johnson
Abstract. We explore the role of meditative practice in cultivating experiences of compassion, empathy, and altruism and address an apparent paradox: Meditation often is associated with solitary retreat, if not preoccupation with one's own concerns. How, then, does such a practice promote compassion for others? We propose a two‐stage model. The first stage involves disengagement from usual...
Journal of Health Psychology
May 1, 1999
Jean L. Kristeller, C. Brendan Hallett
681 citations
The efficacy of a 6-week meditation-based group intervention for Binge Eating Disorder (BED) was evaluated in 18 obese women, using standard and eating-specific mindfulness meditation exercises. A single-group extended baseline design assessed all variables at 3 weeks pre-and post-, and at 1, 3, and 6 weeks; briefer assessment occurred weekly.Binges decreased in frequency, from 4.02/week to...