Healthier Substitutes for Food Cravings

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Have you experienced that at the middle of the day, you want to eat something? How about wanting to munch some food but it is not available at the moment? One common reaction you will hear is: “Naglilihi ka ba?”. Well, you are in the state of CRAVING.

Craving is an indicator that there are something wrong in our body. Some reasons for experiencing this condition are dehydration, nutrient deficiency, hormonal imbalance, emotional stress, and the "yin/yang" imbalance. (MindBodyGreen)

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Reducing Food Cravings

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Have you ever wonder that even you had enough food, you still crave for more and doesn’t feel you are already full? This problem may lead to weight gain so better try to observe if you are guilty of the following reasons:

Taking too much softdrinks or canned foods.

Most softdrinks and sweetened beverages are high in fructose. Fructose cheats our body that we are not yet full by blocking our body’s ability to use leptin (a “sanitation hormone” that dictates our mind that we had already enough food). This results you to crave more food.

On the other hand, canned foods are high in bisphenol-A (BPA) and based on recent studies, it also causes an abnormal flows of leptin that leads to food cravings too.

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