Over the years, I’ve learned a few things about my food cravings. If I want salty food, I usually need protein. If I eat refined sugar, I just want more sugar (but I can turn that off with fruit, sweet but not refined). If I want chocolate, I’m stressed (or in the presence of really good chocolate). I’m not sure I believe all of it (but hey, it’s worth a try), but here’s a chart of what to eat for each craving. Some of these are ironic … if you crave soda then you need calcium, and that soda will likely impair your calcium absorption! Others make sense to me. For instance, craving chocolate is linked to B deficiency, probably the same B’s that are mal-absorbed under stress, completing the explanation of my rare chocolate cravings. I prefer the (hint of) scientific explanation for cravings, but since it’s a sales pitch, it stops short.
The other craving I get is when I’m late eating a meal, I often get The Hunger, where I want to eat for the rest of the day. It’s hard to fight The Hunger, and I’m gassy then too. (Like now. I thought that was a false alarm that I was hungry for lunch at 11:30 AM, but the after-effects indicate otherwise.)
