Crumbs: Lightweight Daily Food Challenges to Promote Engagement and Mindfulness.

ABSTRACT: Many people struggle with efforts to make healthy behavior changes, such as healthy eating. Several existing approaches promote healthy eating, but present high barriers and yield limited engagement. As a lightweight alternative approach to promoting mindful eating, we introduce and examine crumbs: daily food challenges completed by consuming one food that meets the challenge. We examine crumbs through developing and deploying the iPhone application Food4Thought. In a 3-week field study with 61 participants, crumbs supported engagement and mindfulness while offering opportunities to learn about food. Our 2×2 study compared nutrition versus non-nutrition crumbs coupled with social versus non-social features. Nutrition crumbs often felt more p

SUBMITTER: Epstein DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5428072 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature