/newsroom/taxonomy/term/3883/all en /newsroom/channels/news/habit-change-key-success-weight-loss-290145 <p>Can experts in behaviour change help boost weight loss for overweight people? Æ»¹ûÒùÔº researchers think so: they report significant results -- up to 10% of body-mass loss with this approach.</p> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:00:09 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 85430 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mindfulness-training-shows-promise-maintaining-weight-loss-283028 <p>Can mindfulness training help overweight people shed pounds and keep them off?  Æ»¹ûÒùÔº researchers surveyed the growing body of studies investigating that question, and came away encouraged.</p> <p>Kimberly Carrière, Bärbel Knäuper and Bassam Khoury examined 19 studies conducted over the past decade. Mindfulness interventions in these studies involved either formal meditation, informal mindfulness strategies that focused on eating activity, or some combination of these two approaches.</p> <p>The researchers found that:</p> Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:29:28 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32695 at /newsroom /newsroom/barbel-knauper Tue, 29 Jun 2021 19:23:10 +0000 Anonymous 23032 at /newsroom