Tag: Food Cravings

Food cravings are fueled by emotion, stress, or simply not eating a satisfying meal. Avoid artificial sweeteners because they won’t meet your sugar cravings, and only make you want more. Eat fiber and protein to increase fullness and satiety. Drink water, because dehydration often shows up as hunger. Never skip meals because you’ll just feel ravenous later on, and be sure to manage stress and get enough sleep. Otherwise, the hunger hormone ghrelin will spike up.

Pregnancy and PMS have similar symptoms. PMS symptoms disappear when the period starts and are short-lived, whereas pregnancy symptoms might last longer. Commonly confused symptoms include food cravings, breast pain, spotting, nausea, mood changes, fatigue, and cramping. If in doubt, take a pregnancy test to be clear. If the symptoms, signs, and tests are unclear, visit your doctor at the earliest.

Ask any woman to describe her experience with pregnancy, and food cravings will definitely figure in the conversation. Food cravings, and crazy ones at...

What you eat is who you are or what your gut bacteria want you to be. The gurt-brain axis is a strong neural connection. When you have larger colonies of unhealthy bacteria, they cause you to crave for unhealthy foods and ruin your mood when you don’t comply! Getting rid of them involves a planned, healthful diet, and sheer willpower. This can be hard. But once your body is colonized by good bacteria, you won't witness cravings.

How many times have you started out on a stringent diet only to give in to the first craving that came your way? It's...

Do you happen to have a constant urge to taste chocolates or gorge on potato chips? Your love for these delectable foods may be more than just a matter of personal choice. While most of your food preferences depend on the choices you've made from when you were young, your genes do play a significant role in your eating choices and dietary habits.

Tomato cravings or tomatophagia has been liked to iron-deficiency anemia. While anecdotal evidence further links it to other nutrient deficits like vtamins A, C, and E and potassium deficiencies, there is no scientific proof. Moreover, research suggests that food cravings are more likely to be psychological than physical. Tomato cravings may implicate a texture-flavor craving more than anything else.

In the past, you may have tried to kill your appetite with pills, powders, or the magic bullet. As you discovered, it didn’t work...

If you have all heard stories about wonderful, comfortable, and blissful pregnancies from friends and family, hold your thoughts right there! Every pregnancy is...

Suppressing your food cravings to lose weight will only be a short-term success. Blood sugar imbalance is one of the strongest driving forces for our sugar cravings. Carbohydrates' intake through the food are metabolized by our body into a form of sugar called glucose, that acts as fuel for our body. The hormone called insulin absorbs the glucose, controlling blood sugar level. Too low blood sugar level creates food craving to normalize it. To beat the food cravings, control blood sugar by reducing overall intake of carbohydrate.

Are you snoring a lot, suddenly? Or maybe taking too many bathroom breaks? Don't dismiss these things. In some cases, the internal problems in...

It’s no secret that different occasions call for a variety of distinct foods. I mean, what’s a birthday or wedding without an extravagant cake...

Migraines are pulsating headaches oft preceded by warning symptoms known as aura. While the most common auras are visual, such as flickering lights, lines or spots, other signs that may signal the onset of a migraine include numbness or a pins-and-needles sensation on one side of the body, stuffy nose, watery eyes, frequent yawning, and/or sudden mood swings.

The myriad of hormonal changes you go through when you are pregnant can impact your taste and smell to a great extent. You may experience...

Take 400-500mg of ashwagandha+brahmi every morning with breakfast and every evening before dinner to wean yourself off sugar. Drink prime juice (blend 1 cucumber, 1c spinach, 1/4c purple cabbage, 1 apple, 1 carrot, 1 beet, 1 lemon, 1" fresh ginger) in the morning before breakfast or in the afternoon when the most intense sugar cravings typically strike.