Control sugar cravings: the new intense craving for a food indicates sensitivity

This article will focus more on sugar craving control. A doctor I know told me on a website that cravings for sweets are actually your body’s need for protein, so following an earlier suggestion of eating “meat, meat, and only meat” is a good way to overcome it. Also, diverting it to cashews and almonds is also effective. I went to a store that sold different bulk nuts and bought a ton (yes, nuts are expensive) and then mixed them in baggies at home. I always carried a baggie with me, so that when my husband stopped for a snack on a road trip, I would have my baggie of nuts (almonds, cashews, Brazil nuts, macadamia nuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, and , of course, without peanuts or pistachios).

Another trick I was told was to use peppermint oil. Place a small drop on the back of your hand and lick it off. It’s powerful! The variation on that is to drink peppermint tea. My friend and I bought tons. If you need a sweetener, health food stores have Stevia, which is expensive but worth it when you have something sweet to eat. Apparently, you can also bake with it, but by the time I found some, my cravings had been tempered by all the nuts and mint tea. Stevia is about twice as strong as sugar, so you don’t need a lot and a half packet equals about a packet of sugar.

Just a word of warning, though: a friend has been eating cashews for only a couple of weeks, only to find that she started feeling very tired and cloudy-brained afterward. Despite that, she seemed to have become addicted to them and she couldn’t stop eating masses at once. Then she had a sensitivity test and sure enough, she was showing a strong reaction. Nuts are quite allergenic, so it is advisable to be careful with their consumption. Any new intense desire for a food may indicate that a sensitivity has developed.