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Food Cravings:This Is What Your Body Is Trying To Tell You.

Food Cravings:This Is What Your Body Is Trying To Tell You.

Do you often have food cravings? And you don't know what to do?

A craving is often perceived as a sudden urge to eat chips, chocolate or other unhealthy snacks.

But in reality, food cravings are indicative of deficiencies in the nutrients your body needs!

Whether it's night cravings, before menstruation, winter, pregnancy... they all have reasons.

Fortunately, here is the guide to know what your cravings really mean and especially what to replace them with!

To better listen to your body and eat healthy, follow the guide:

Food Cravings:This Is What Your Body Is Trying To Tell You.

Click here to print this guide in PDF.

Desire for sweet foods?

Your body actually needs:

- Chrome
- Carbon
- Phosphorus
- Sulfur
- Tryptophan

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Broccoli, grapes, cheese, beans, chicken
- Fresh fruits
- Chicken, beef, liver, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, nuts, legumes
- Cranberries, horseradish, brassicas (kale, kale, cabbage)
- Cheese, liver, turkey, sweet potato, spinach

Want some bread?

Your body actually needs:

- Nitrogen

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Foods with high protein content:fish, meat, nuts, beans

Fancy fatty foods?

Your body actually needs:

- Calcium

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Mustard greens, turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame seeds

Want some coffee?

Your body actually needs:

- Phosphorus
- Sulfur
- NaCl (salt)
- Iron

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Chicken, beef, liver, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, nuts, legumes
- Egg yolk, red peppers, garlic, onion, brassicas
- Sea salt, cider vinegar
- Meat, fish and poultry, seaweed, green vegetables, black cherries

Want to drink alcohol?

Your body actually needs:

- Proteins
- Avenin
- Calcium
- Potassium

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Meat, poultry, seafood, nuts
- Muesli, oat flakes
- Mustard greens, turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame seeds
- Dried black olives, soup with potato peelings, seaweed, leafy vegetables with a bitter taste

Want some sodas &soft drinks ?

Your body actually needs:

- Calcium

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Mustard greens, turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame seeds

If you crave salty foods

Your body actually needs:

- Chloride

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Unpasteurized goat's milk, fish, unrefined sea salt

Want to smoke a cigarette?

Your body actually needs:

- Silicon
- Tyrosine

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Nuts &seeds, avoid refined cereals
- Oranges (or vitamin C supplement), fruits &vegetables in orange, green and red colors

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Do you suffer from premenstrual syndrome?

Your body actually needs:

- Zinc

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Red meat (especially organ meats), seafood, leafy greens, root vegetables

Not eating enough?

Your body actually needs:

- Vitamin B1
- Vitamin B3
- Manganese
- Chloride

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Nuts, seeds, beans, liver and other organ meats
- Tuna, halibut, beef, chicken, turkey, pork, seeds
- walnuts, almonds, pecans, pineapple, blueberries
- Unpasteurized goat's milk, unrefined sea salt

Are you eating too much?

Your body actually needs:

- Silicon
- Tryptophan
- Tyrosine

Instead, eat these foods instead:

- Nuts &seeds, avoid refined cereals
- Cheese, liver, lamb, sweet potatoes, spinach
- Oranges (or vitamin C supplement), fruits &vegetables in orange, green and red colors

Food Cravings:This Is What Your Body Is Trying To Tell You.

Your turn…

Have you tried this guide to better understand what food cravings reveal about dietary deficiencies? Let us know in the comments if it worked for you. We can't wait to read you!