Cravings? What your body is trying to tell you
Mar 31, 2020
4 minutes
Words: Alice Salter
We all experience cravings from time to time – maybe it’s carbs as we step through the front door after work, sweets or chocolate when we’ve had a tiring or stressful day. Whatever it is we crave, this is our body sending us a signal that we are in need, though this signal is rarely as straightforward as a ‘need’ for the foods we crave.
Cravings are complex, confirms nutritional therapist Kristy Coleman: “It isn’t as simple as craving chocolate meaning you are deficient in magnesium, but they are broadly driven by two mechanisms. There is the psychological, which ranges from restrictions we place upon ourselves
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