Food Craving Meanings and Why You Crave Certain Foods
“All I want is an ENORMOUS steak. I just need more iron.”
Chances are you, too, have echoed similar words, and drove to a local steakhouse for dinner.
For years, popular belief has held that our cravings show what is lacking in our diet, that cravings are our body’s way of telling us what they need.
While not entirely false (there is research connecting cravings to certain nutritional deficiencies), it is not the entire story
Most of us have food cravings. 97 percent of women and 68 percent of men who took part in a study published in the journal Appetite reported experiencing them. Cravings are motivational states that give us the urge to consume a particular food.
Are you the type of person who craves chocolate? Or do you have cravings for salty snacks? What are the food cravings for different foods, anyway?
Different cravings mean different things.
Craving is an almost uncontrollable compulsion to have a certain food. So it’s not just that you like a certain food. It’s that you have to have it.
What would your reaction be if I told you that you couldn’t have a specific food ever again? What would happen if I told you couldn’t have chocolate ever again? If you’re willing to…
