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People who meditate are probably more likely to eat healthy than people from the general population. This is probably because of their personality types, however, I wonder if meditating would make people from the general population more likely to eat healthy. Did meditation help you eat healthy?

I tried a sort of prayer meditation to get me through times when I was craving food but not actually hungry. I wouldn't say that it helped me eat healthier but it did help me get through the times of cravings that were not hunger. The only problem I found with it was when I began using it at the beginning of my workout plan and health plan. I would do meditation chants or prayer until the cravings passed. That worked but it could sometimes take up to half an hour which cut into other things. I think it may work for some people but some people may not be able to work it into their lives as a suitable way to help them eat healthier or get through the cravings.

Yes. Healthy mind, healthy body.

People who meditate are probably more likely to eat healthy than people from the general population. This is probably because of their personality types, however, I wonder if meditating would make people from the general population more likely to eat healthy. Did meditation help you eat healthy?

You've provided the key to your own answer. "People who meditate are probably more likely to eat healthy....because of their personality types."

The kind of people who are inclined towards meditation are the kind who will want an overall healthy life. It's more than likely these people were already doing a number of things towards a healthy, better lifestyle even as they began meditation.

When you come to the general population, however, it's debatable as to how you would approach the matter. Would you ask them to meditate in order to eat healthy? I don't think it would work. There would be two problems in this.

The first is to convince people to meditate who are not inclined towards it. The second is that meditation is not meditation if it is directed towards achieving some specific goal. That becomes more positive thinking, or self hypnosis, or auto suggestion.

Meditation should begin with a desire for general peace and well being. It leads to other changes in your life as a matter of course, without the necesssity of specifically targeting anything.

For me, meditation helps increase awareness and mindfulness.  I tend to make better choices in eating after I've meditated because I focus more on what I'm putting in my body.  The same effect can be achieved without meditation, but I would certainly say it's helped me.

Meditation is helpful to boosts your concentration, produces persistence and it also helps your body and spirit. Meditation helps you in various way with eat healthy. I feel that, if your mind is healthy your body will automatically follow your spiritual way.

I agree with what Socrates II said. This isn't a cause-effect situation of the meditation -does- this, this, or this. It's a correlation between someone who might be more likely to meditate is also possibly a person who would be more likely to eat healthier, take better care of themselves, etc.

I don't think you could just randomly put out there that "hey, meditating makes people eat healthier, so go do it!" and that people would actually do it...or benefit from it.

I personally have never had any indicators in my personal life that meditation directly has caused me to eat healthier. I do think you're right about the fact that people who are meditating are probably more likely to be predispositioned to living a healthy lifestyle, though. Of course there are practices out there that have made connections to meditation-type practices and changes in dietary needs, such as people who purport that they require little to no nourishment as a result of sungazing. A similar concept of taking in nutrients via light is seen is Breatharianism. I'm not saying I think either of those is a healthy lifestyle or diet by any means, but they certainly show that many people have made correlations between meditating and diet changes!