What Causes Food Cravings

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Many people suffer from food craving occasionally. Craving is always for a certain specific food or type of food, not just anything to satisfy hunger. Generally the craving is felt for candy, chocolate or something that will give sugar or carbohydrates to the body. You could crave for something like potato chips or an extra glass of wine as well.

Quite often people think it is bad habits that are responsible for this craving, or that the person has poor will power. That is really not the case! There are a couple of biological reasons behind the food cravings you experience.

Reasons and causes why you crave for food 

To enhance low blood sugar level which might happen due to exhaustion or depression you brain signals your body. The result is a craving for sugar rich foods such as carbohydrates. One of the causes for this behavior is Serotonin, our basic feel-good hormone. The conditions of low level of Serotonin and low level of blood-sugar go hand-in-hand. This is exactly the reason why you crave for sweet stuff when there level of Serotonin is low.

However, sugar or carbohydrates are release short bust of Serotonin and when this burst dies down, you feel the cravings again. This leads us into a spiral.

Adrenal fatigue is another reason associated with food cravings. Adrenal fatigue is the condition you are said to be in when your are either stressed out or you have not had restful sleep. In very severe cases the condition is called adrenal exhaustion.

In case of Adrenal Fatigue also the body sends a signal to the brain for a pick-me-up and that is your craving for sugar or carbohydrate snacks, or may be, coffee during the day; at night you may look for alcohol or carbohydrates. All this simply worsens the situation.
It is also seen that persons, who keep themselves on a low fat, low carbohydrate diet on a long time or have been taking appetite suppressants, do have food craving; it is because they have become at least partially insulin resistant without realizing this condition. In the normal course blood sugar level of the body is maintained stable by the action of insulin; insulin signals the cells of the body to absorb glucose from the bloodstream when necessary.Because of their insulin resistant condition, the cells do not respond to the signal and cannot mop up glucose they need. The result is that your brain signals your body for more carbohydrates and sugar.

How to Reduce Food Cravings 

If you understand the basic reason why you feel food cravings, you can actually beat it.. Though it may take some time, you can actually do it. To break food cravings, the body needs real healthy foods, additional nutritional supplements (of pharmaceutical-grade) at times; this and moderate exercise can help curb cravings. This process may take some time, but it will succeed.

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