The Impact of Mindfulness Interventions upon Visual Attention and Attentional Bias Towards Food Cues: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

The so-called 'Western diet' characterised by the frequent consumption of high energy-dense (HED) food is linked with overeating, obesity, and an array of physiological and weight-related health complications. Attentional biases to HED food, which have been identified as a key mechanism promoting overeating, arise when reward-driven automatic processes impair the internal states responsible for regulating hunger and satiety. Emerging mindfulness-based interventions show promise in attenuating attentional biases by training controlled processes and enhancing the self-regulatory mechanisms required to override reward-driven automatic processing.

Methods

Following PRISMA 2020 guidelines and PICOS strategy, this systematic review collates and synthesises cu

SUBMITTER: Duffy R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12735511 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature