Questão 16 - ACAFE Medicina - Inverno 2025/2

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Mindfulness is a term that has become embedded in our everyday language, but its meaning is more profound than how we use it in our driven, multitasking, social structure. This term has become popular because it urges conscious awareness of whatever the focus might be. It has become a method of encouraging someone to take good care of him- or herself. Likewise, “mindful eating” encourages us to gain awareness of our eating experiences. [...]

The practice of mindfulness has helped thousands of people to live more intentionally and develop the skills necessary to manage chronic pain, disease, depression, sleeping problems, and anxiety. It also has become the focus of an approach to eating that fulfills the criteria necessary in changing one’s overall approach to eating. It has been recognized for quite some time that, without behavior change, a diet is useless. [...]

Mindful eating (i.e., paying attention to our food, on purpose, moment by moment, without judgment) is an approach to food that focuses on individuals’ sensual awareness of the food and their experience of the food. It has little to do with calories, carbohydrates, fat, or protein. The purpose of mindful eating is not to lose weight, although it is highly likely that those who adopt this style of eating will lose weight. The intention is to help individuals savor the moment and the food and encourage their full presence for the eating experience.

(Source: Mindful Eating: The Art of Presence While You Eat - PMC, retrieved on April 16th, 2025)

Read Text, adapted from the article 'Mindful Eating: The Art of Presence While You Eat', published by the National Library of Medicine.

 

According to Text, analyze whether the statements that follow are true (T) or false (F).

 

I   (  ) Mindfulness is a term that has remained external to everyday usage, despite the fact it should be used to describe a multitasking social structure.

II  (  ) Mindful eating practice has assisted thousands in living more carelessly and in developing the skills needed to cope with mental and physical health challenges.

III (  ) All those who adopt the mindful eating style will lose weight.

IV (  ) Mindfulness encourages a multitasking society.

V  (  ) Unlike the mindful approach, mindful eating encourages us to gain awareness of our eating experiences.

VI (  ) Mindful eating focuses on a person's sensory perception of the food and their personal experience with it, inasmuch as it focuses on calories, carbohydrates, fat, or protein.

 

The statements I to VI are respectively