What Food Cravings Mean
A food craving is your body’s cry for nutrients… not a cry for pizza, candy, soda or any nutrient deficient food.
Your body needs vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, essential amino acids, and so on to function properly. Your brain constantly monitors your blood sugar and your supply of essential nutrients. Excessive hunger and food cravings, including sugar cravings, are caused primarily by a deficiency or an imbalance in some essential nutrient.
When an essential nutrient is in short supply, the brain sends a message that we interpret as a strong desire to eat something,, maybe a particular food like ice cream or sweets, chips, cookies, salty foods or no telling what.
Cravings that are caused and driven by a need for nutrients are EASILY overcome when the nutrients are supplied. For example, two tablespoons of flax seed oil a day supply enough of the essential omega 3 fatty acids to wipe out a sweet craving in 2 or 3 days.
Best Way To Stop Cravings
The only way to effectively stop a food craving is to supply the missing nutrients in the form of healthy food and/or proper supplementation. Do this and cravings will be gone forever.
A craving for salty foods suggests a need for sodium… eat celery or cucumber instead of chips; sweet cravings almost always respond to essential fatty acids, take flax seed oil or coconut oil instead of eating the junk; craving chocolate may suggest a need for magnesium; and craving meat of any kind suggests a need for B vitamins, carnitine and minerals.
Instead of sweet drinks and candy, cookies, chips, etc, supplement with flax seed oil and/or coconut oil and snack on things like cheese sticks and apple slices, almonds and pistachios, plain yogurt with fresh or frozen blueberries, or celery ribs with almond butter, or a hard boiled egg, all of which are loaded with nutrients and will curb appetite and stop food craving practically overnight.
For More Information On How To Stop Cravings
In 5 Steps To Optimal Health, food cravings and hunger are explained in detail and you receive complete instructions to eliminate excessive hunger, stop food cravings and put an end to sugar cravings in just a few days with simple diet and nutrition adjustments that are easy to make.
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Written by Dr. Russell J. Martino, Ph.DThe Voice Of Health
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