Always wanting to eat is a disease and needs to be treated!

When we are free, we will think about all kinds of food, and our mouths will be craving for all kinds of delicacies, such as love tofu fruit, potato cakes, generous baked tofu, chocolate and so on. In fact, craving is a signal of the body's needs. Let's take a closer look at what happens to our body when we particularly want to eat a certain food!

Show off your food, show off your life, showing off is an attitude!

Dr. Harvey Winkaden of the University of Calgary in Canada has done extensive research on people's desire for food and found that 96% of women and 68% of men have experienced "oral addiction." Under normal circumstances, we will listen to the call of our heart and satisfy our appetite. "There is a clear difference between cravings and intermittent hunger. When you are hungry, you want to eat everything; but when you are greedy, you want to eat a certain kind of food in particular."

Taste means – lack of nutrition!

The Chinese often say, "A person's appetite is determined by the age of three." In fact, in addition to common reasons such as geographical environment, eating habits developed since childhood, and genetic genes, a preference for a certain taste may also be a signal of nutritional imbalance or health abnormality. Many studies abroad have shown that there is a certain relationship between taste preferences and nutritional deficiencies. Many taste preferences can be corrected with richer, fresher foods.

Love to eat meat - insufficient amino acids!

This indicates that the body is lacking in amino acids or minerals such as iron. Many people are unable to resist the tempting aroma of meat and fat, which leads to eating too much and causing metabolic diseases.

Countermeasure: You can use fragrant foods such as mushrooms and sesame instead. Shiitake mushrooms contain a variety of vitamins, polysaccharides and other phytochemicals, which can prevent chronic diseases; sesame is also rich in various vitamins, rich protein, antioxidants, etc. In addition, peanuts and soybeans are also good choices.

Always craving for chocolate—lack of B vitamins!

It may mean that the body is lacking in B vitamins, especially vitamins B6 and B12. B vitamins help the body metabolize. Once they are deficient, people are prone to fatigue and depression. Chocolate can make people feel happy by releasing serotonin.

Countermeasure: Eat more foods rich in B vitamins, such as tomatoes, oranges, grapes, pears and other fruits. In addition, milk, beans, nuts and spinach are rich in vitamin B12. B vitamins can improve the taste of food. The newly-available corn and rice taste better because they are rich in B vitamins.

Love sweets – lack of energy!

Dr. Alan Hirsch, head of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, said that if a person wants to eat sweets, it means that he lacks energy in his body. Sweets mainly provide sugar to the human body and are one of the most direct ways to replenish physical energy. It should be noted that a love of sweets may also be a manifestation of abnormal insulin metabolism.

Countermeasure: Sweets mainly supplement energy amino acids, but we can supplement them by eating more lean meat, eggs, fish, yam, beans, yam, lotus root, etc. Professor Luo Weifang, chief physician of internal medicine at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, reminds: Children must not be greedy for sweets such as candy, drinks, and ice cream. The sweet taste will increase dampness and produce phlegm, which can easily cause coughing. Parents can make some lotus leaf mung bean porridge or fruit soup to satisfy their children's desire for sweets.

Craving for salty food—too stressed and tired!

It's not because they lack sodium, but because of too much stress. The more stressed and tired people are in life, the more they like to eat salty food. Strong flavors will dull the taste buds, leading to a vicious cycle of eating saltier and saltier food. Studies have also found that women who often eat low-calcium foods like to eat salty foods more than the average person. Experiments have shown that potassium deficiency, calcium deficiency and iron deficiency will cause the subjects to crave salt.

Countermeasure: In fact, green vegetables themselves contain a certain amount of sodium chloride. Even if you don’t add salt when cooking, you can still taste a little salt if you taste it carefully. Everyone should consciously reduce salt intake and maintain a light diet. It is recommended to add some vinegar when cooking, and use chili, onion, ginger, garlic, etc. to enhance the flavor.

Replenish:

The desire to eat fried foods and sesame may be due to calcium deficiency; the desire to eat barbecue may be due to lack of carbohydrates; the desire to eat nuts and beans may be due to lack of tryptophan sulfide in the body; the desire to drink carbonated drinks may be due to calcium deficiency in your body.

3 truths about oral addiction

1. The truth about “oral addiction”: the addiction is most severe between 3-6 pm.

Dr. Marcia Levine-Patterson of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, an American taste and smell research institute, found that sudden cravings for certain foods mostly occur between 3 and 6 p.m. Because the blood sugar level in our body is decreasing at this time, people begin to become lazy. In order to regain their spirits, many people choose to eat something. The study also found that good memories of food and a sudden drop in temperature or dimming of light can also stimulate the feeling that you "have to eat."

2. The truth behind oral addiction: women are most likely to have it when they are under stress or before their menstrual period.

Many studies have shown that when people are under stress, their resistance to food decreases and they are more likely to eat more. Sweet foods in particular can stimulate the brain to secrete more serotonin, relieving our anxiety. This is also related to women's increased appetite before menstruation. Women eat to relieve the bad mood or low mood caused by PMS.

3. The truth about “mouth addiction”: 5 kinds of food that are most “fascinating”

"I often hear people complain that they eat too many high-sugar foods. The most common ones are chocolate, biscuits, ice cream, potato chips, and cheese," Dr. Elaine McKee wrote. Although these all seem to be sweets, in fact, they also indicate that you have a strong desire for fat.

"The biggest problem now is that people eat too casually. They eat as much as they like and don't eat at all what they don't like." Professor Zhang Hude from the Health Care Room of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine feels helpless about the taste preferences of Chinese people. He said that Chinese medicine emphasizes that the five flavors enter the five internal organs. No matter what kind of food, overeating or not eating it will cause a "chain reaction" in the five internal organs, which is not good for health.