Hello, I'm Monica Reinagle, the nutrition diva, here with your quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous.

And as 2017 draws to a close this week, I thought it would be

fun to take a look back at some of the best food and nutrition research and discoveries

that I covered in this year's nutrition

diva podcasts. My first category is Best Behavior Change Strategy.

If I had to choose just one thing that would make the biggest positive difference in people's eating habits,

it would be eating more mindfully.

Now, before you tune out, that's something that we talk about a lot,

but few of us actually practice it on a consistent

basis. And yet mindful eating has the potential to improve not just our nutrition, but also

our enjoyment of the food that we eat.

If you've resisted the idea of mindful eating,

for fear that it would require you to eat all of your meals

in a state of meditative silence and chew every bite a hundred times.

Let me just reassure you that eating mindfully does not have to be that extreme in order to be

extremely useful.

Last March, I outlined four strategies

that you can easily implement without withdrawing

from society or drawing unwelcome attention to yourself.

Try any one of them for a week and I guarantee you will notice positive benefits.

By the way I've included a link to that podcast on Mindful Eating, as well as to all of the other

episodes that I'm going to be referring to today in the transcript for today's show, which

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