A healthy eating pattern promotes health and helps to decrease the risk of chronic diseases. The Letcher County Family & Consumer Sciences Agent taught Mindful Eating as a homemaker lesson to the Quicksand Area homemakers. 

Homemakers took a pre and post-test with the following results:

85% of participants recognize the consequences of mindless eating

86% recognize how to solve problems related to mindless eating

88% plan to change behaviors related to mindless eating, such as avoid eating in front of the television, waiting a full 20 minutes before going back for a second helping of food and planning to fill their plate with half vegetables and fruit.

Some remarks made by participants include “I plan to stop eating when I begin to feel full”, “I plan to apply all these mindful eating strategies to my diet plan”, “I was given information to help me “think” become more aware of my diet habits”, and “Be much more careful about the amount I eat and when I eat it”.