Healthy Choices Everyday

Food cravings can get the better of us all and can lead to the most determined to weakening and eating something they really did not want to eat. There are two types of cravings – physical and emotional. Lets talk about the physical first.

Our bodies are often malnourished and mineral deficient and often the desire/ craving for a certain food is the body trying to get that missing mineral or some essential fatty acids, for example, many people are magnesium deficient and guess which food has a lot of magnesium – chocolate. Many overweight individuals are malnourished (plenty of food with very little nourishment) – they have a diet severely lacking in real foods and often eat non fat products in an effort to lose weight along with high amounts of sugar and starch, what I call empty calories or another way to look at it – Non nourishing calories. When the body is not receiving proper nourishment it is always going to be trying to get what it needs leaving the person hungry most of the time. That along with the addictive qualities of sugar and wheat (see previous posts) and you have a cocktail for a never ending cycle of weight gain, depression and ill health. The bodies signals are often untrustworthy and detrimental to our health such as a craving for sugar may be because you have an overgrowth of bad bacteria (candida) that is calling out to be fed with sugar – Feed Me! and unless you starve yourself of sugar and take action to increase the good bacteria in your colon you will continue to suffer unbearable cravings for sugar.

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