There’s no denying that balanced meals are important, but there’s also more to healthful eating than determining portion sizes and hitting all the right food groups. In fact, when you have a healthy relationship with your food, all else generally falls into place. How do you do that? To start, it involves staying connected with the experience of eating; knowing where your food grew and how it was prepared or cooked; and it even means being aware of who eats with you. Hungry for more? Read on with this selection of articles from Mindful.org, and bon appétit! Mouthfuls of Mindfulness: Whether you overeat, undereat, or just feel conflicted about how you eat, mindfulness practice, says physician Jan Chozen Bays, can help you rediscover a healthy and joyful relationship with food. Food Values: Celebrated chef Alice Waters talks about our food choices, making changes, what it takes to be a good cook. Sustainability: Just What Is It?: Bridget Hildreth looks for the true meaning of a common but sometimes misunderstood term and finds it at Oregon’s Flora Valley Farm. What to Eat in the Morning?: Food writer John Thorne, author of Pot on the Fire, muses over breakfast—its purpose, its constitution and what it means for your day. Small is Bountiful: Sharon Hunt shares how preparing food has become a sort of meditation practice for her. In this book review, Hunt explores how the same meditative quality permeates Urban Pantry, by Amy Pennington.
