some people you know even crave a big juicy steak or a big baked potato different times of the day when they're stressed when they're not when they're hungry a tub of ice cream yeah it says something about me to say that comes in a single serving container what's the size or is it a pint a pint yeah that's one single serving yes it is good to know that's not technically correct so don't take her advice but that's her single serving exactly so what are some of the cravings that we have and what do they mean let's let's talk melissa they know sugars and sweets oh god that's my privates and that's my one of my problems of my downfalls first of all americans actually eat the most sugar in the diets of and of any country that surprise surprise right right and i and part of that and they say there's there's theories that say that because they hide so much high fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners in our foods and processed foods that we've become addicted to it yeah and in other countries right and in other countries they don't do that so they don't have the same problem we do right so we're victims yeah that's not our fault so let's talk about sugar reasons foods so how many times do you this prefer that mid morning do i don't usually crave sugar until sometime in the evening sometimes it's usually like after dinner so i'm wanting something sweet and did you know that the more sweet to eat the more you're going to crave them yeah because you do your body becomes addicted they say once you get off that hump you don't crave them anymore but who can get past that help exactly because when we when we win especially the sweets we get our blood sugar goes up so we get the sugar high and then become crashing down and so you're tired and now you're craving were sugar so you're ready for your next sugar high so you have a rollercoaster all day long it's not good it's not good it's also you could have or a lack of  magnesium or chromium that makes you crave all the sweet stuff oh so an actual deficiency of zinc or chromium magnesium and grow my music could be the reason that you're craving sweets or sugars yeah so what you can do is take a supplement to help balance it so you think if i take magnesium chromium and zinc i'm not going to want ice cream or donuts  what it is you have a planetary sufficiency so chocolate chocolate is the next big one right lots of people crave chocolate it's a big saying i'm especially for women and they say that even when women is going through her time of the month or her menstrual cycle sometimes it's a thousand times worse that they just crave that piece of chocolate chocolate beast chocolate beast but they say that if you're having that quite often i mean one of course you could have a sugar addiction too you could have magnesium magnesium deficiency yeah again i don't believe that one for some reason  because i think that museum supplements and i still think about chocolate so maybe i have a sugar addiction i guess i got to take a good look at that but they say that you know magnesium helps calm you and they say it helps you with sleep and everything like that so if you take that and you get past this this column for the suspicion see that you have that it might help with some of the cravings it will help you sleep better and that you should reach for something like that instead of having the chocolate but if you are going to go for the chocolate you should have dark dark dark dark as you can get it's going to taste more better it will have a lot less sugar and it's heart health and it's heart healthy but it's also great some of them like the eighty percent and above are yeah they have that would have known it yeah so they say if you want to take it in turn it into brownies or smoothie yeah you know it psychological yeah probably more so than some of these deficiencies so it's you know mind over matter when it comes to eating cravings probably a tough battle struggle is real you know so what's next are the devil and they are it's not the carbs are not my friend i've found through years of testing that even eating a little bit of carbs i can immediately gain weight and pasta is one of my favorite things probably even more than potatoes and bread i could probably live with that that was if i really had to it's the pasta that i miss really i do i miss it a lot and if i eat just even a little bit of that scale goes up so it's not my friend but they do know that  mean it makes you feel good but it tastes amazing so do you eat lots of carbs i love it so you're like a potato pasta i love potatoes stuffing or potatoes i take potatoes ok and bread do you eat bread all the time when you go out anywhere like to a restaurant or i try to like when you're on vacation i try not to eat all the or the breads but those on vacation but you like them yeah so are you a muffin person and a bagel person in the morning to like and like like raisin cinnamon toast so you like bread of ten yeah so what does it mean if you like all that a lot of times you did the carbs because you knew that burst of energy also because the carbs are complex sugars so that's another one that you're going to go up and you're going to feel good  the you're going to crash yeah so how do you beat the carb cravings with gentle exercise so next time i want and a and baka sauce i need to go get on a treadmill instead and whole my whole making yourself feel better you know yeah i mean life is short so you have to you have to enjoy some things when you can yeah and a good meal and italian food especially one of the pleasures right yeah i guess you just have to do it in moderation like they say yeah everything is in moderation but craving sometimes the carbs is definitely again something they say it's emotional and can have that connection and so you know maybe look at what the bigger problem is are you sad or depressed about something you know maybe fix that instead of eating a pound of pasta cheese i love i love cheese i love all kinds of cheese hard cheese soft cheese international teases american cheese doesn't matter i you think about cheese every day it can be an issue but you know it's also a good source of calcium it is and was that ben and jerry's and it's a good source of fat if you're doing like the kito diet or the akon style yet they recommend cheese certain kinds of cheese but again it's cholesterol and it's you know you've got to watch out for lots of things depending on what your personal health issues are exactly they say women it's a good fat for women especially and we tend to have a higher natural body fat ratio than men no kidding exactly that was that was a mean joke that that someone played on us our hormones need more healthy fats to work properly again not fair if the healthy fats are are there for us or cause us to gain weight and we're already have your is it is and we need them to have our bodies yeah because i'm a woman exactly unfair exactly so they say calcium can be the problem because too much of it can be unhealthy so you have to replace it with good fats like from coconut olive oil i'm not see a fish me things like that and you know just indulge on the cheese occasionally again unless you're on one of those diets that recommends you eating cheese regularly  and if you are you need to keep an eye on your cholesterol levels and you know what your cardiovascular risk is because it's too much could be a problem so what else rid me interesting so people that i'd say vegan or vegetarian that don't eat meat they should look to see what can the supplement put in the make talk to their doctor to make sure they're getting adequate sources of iron and b twelve now they say if you're in you should always make sure that you get a full panel so all your blood work especially some of the things such as iron and b twelve and zinc and magnesium to see if your levels are really low because not only are there supplements that can help you but there are certain foods such as you know certain beans a little june isn't and you know deeper mushrooms portabella mushrooms and that can make up the difference for what you're lacking you just have to find out yes i do and do you crave it sometimes like do you crave a steak or burger when i when i have a steak i say this is for my red blood cells i was that i'm going to have it's for my blood and that's true it doesn't it's helpful there's a lot of people who are against it for lots of different reasons some people limit it drastically because they're concerned unless it's you know  organic you know grass fed and all this other stuff beef you know and it's true to some degree what they feed the cattle because you get isn't just didn't come back where you correct so if you can buy organic or grass or all of that it's better for you of course limiting red meat is better you know what they say when it comes to colon cancer risks and stomach cancers and it depends how you make it a lot of people barbecue meats and then you have the whole course and engine levels and you've got to make sure you don't burn them and you've got to watch and so you know it's not just about the me it's about how you buy it where you buy it how you cook it how often you need it and it you know the rest of your whole overall picture are you exercising and what your family medical history and and yours and everything else so you have to be smart about it yeah but a good steak and a good juicy burger are really good every now and then i mean i'm not a vegetarian so i like red meat as well so all the foods now have you ever craved crackers a potato chips or i think everybody at one point craved chips yeah like a certain flavor even sometimes you're like i've really want soul and vinegar sargon greenman onion or that and you know i mean it's been a long time i try to not eat chips anymore because they're not good for you really yeah they're not and there's not much nutritional value to them i mean they're fried and they're potatoes on their marbles and they're they try to make healthier versions like they have big two on those and they make ones an when they're you know organic chips so they don't have pesticides on the potatoes it's cetera et cetera but again at the end of the day i'm sure they're not the healthiest food choice but if you haven't with this when you read and you have a couple to write a couple or a bag is a different story right yeah because sometimes when you start to eat the chips you can't put down the bag so it's just one right that's why they came up with that slogan because it's true i mean who can eat one no one i've ever met has but the people say would you like a kid no i would like several exactly so salty foods why do you crave sodium well a lot of times they say that it really could dehydrated if you're exercising a lot if it's really warm outside if you have a hangover or if you're just not drinking enough water in general you could be dehydrated and your body starts to crave that salt and that's why you're you know thinking of a big thing a french fries with tons of salt on it or a bag of chips or when you have that big you know and your side of fries make sure you drink enough water because you could be dehydrated but they say you know you got to watch the salt you should go for lightly salted things such as popcorns olives things like that don't go for the chips don't take the so often add tons of sa food and you should always still try to cook in use on refined salt and himalayan sea salt that's the most natural source that's the best for you and your body absorbs it differently and process it differently than you know yeah i dive salt so stick to that you can get it inexpensively now they even sell it at the dollar stores in the little growing containers and everything so there's no excuse not to get the better for y while do you drink tea or coffee i drink one coffee in the morning do you like have to have it do you feel like if i don't have it i can't function no ok because i know people are like that because they're yes at the cafe yes and you know i don't i there have been plenty of mornings that i don't have it you know and i don't feel terrible i don't get major headaches i enjoy having my coffee i do feel like it gives me a little pep yeah i usually  have to maximum sometimes i have just one but i don't i'm not one of those people like don't speak to me if i don't have my coffee i can't function but there are people like that and some people have four five six seven cups a day like throughout the day i never have a past the morning i'm not one of those people that you know you go out to dinner and they'll say it's dessert time do you want to cup of coffee like i would never even decaf i would never ever have coffee at night would you know me either even  and caffeine yeah but the rest of the world isn't that's nice so they say you know if you go without it you start to feel lethargic you can get a bad headache it's actually you're having caffeine withdrawal so yeah and if you're trying to get off the caffeine fries you know it's just like a lot of that stuff is just not good but it's really tasty sometimes but it's not good for you if you eat it too often they in it every now and then as long as you're not making your stomach sick because sometimes the grease in oil is too much and it lays on your your stomach and it's not good for people right if you do it occasionally do it moderately they say it's not a bad thing but if you are trying to get fried foods every single day you're looking for fried chicken and fried french fries and it's a problem it's again it's a comfort food it really could be  have an underlying problem and you're looking to feel better through it or stress or you could be lacking in essential essential fatty acids such as a omega three and omega six so you might want to take a look at your vitamins to get your blood tested and see if there is a reason your body is telling you to eat that food because you can take fish oil you can get knots you can get seeds and some of those things may help the craving in your body yeah won't taste as delicious fried chicken and you and me freida oreos but the phone yeah you know i mean is that a funnel cake i don't believe so but it should be right yeah of a funnel cake i'm going to say this summer when i was on the boardwalk with my family i think my sister got a funnel cake at seaside and we all took a piece just so that we could try it a little but no one had to eat the whole thing by themselves so it was good now we said we're going to try to talk some off topic stuff like some strange cravings yeah do you have some for us i have a strange crazy myself what i said i crave carrots you crave carrots yeah like twenty four ha that's very funny and i'm sure your doctor said that's completely healthy for you but not for alfie right he can't afford that right now i get it but people or have they have a deficiency and and isn't there a medication or something that they can give them or supplement that will help stop that problem so they stop eating laundry detergent and dirt yeah i hope so and i think they have to go for like psychological counseling too well yeah because i'm sure sometimes it could be connected but they do say that sometimes just people's body if crazy strange things such as to church and i don't know why your body would crave that but it happens pregnancy pregnancy cravings those two words go together somebody gets pregnant and they have crazy crazy cravings and someone crazy right pickles and ice cream you think of did you have strange cravings when you were pregnant like pickles and ice cream but like i would like to go like to like when i would go out for lunch with my one daughter i would go to rainbow  deli so there was something that you really liked and wanted during your pregnancy and they say that happens that sometimes your body starts telling you you want something and there's a an old wives tale that says if you're craving something you should eat it because it means the baby wants it and you don't to deprive the baby because they could get birthmarks or or other crazy things and none of that is true but you can have cravings and if they get too crazy you should talk to your doctor about it because it could mean it's some type of vitamin deficiency they say that it could be due to something lacking in your diet if you're trying to eat too healthy yuri to certain way your body is telling you i'm not ok with this i need more of whatever it is you're craving whether it's meat or vegetables or word or even sweets it says it you know it could be a vitamin and mineral deficiency in your body so make sure you talk to the doctor make sure they do blood testing to check they said you know pregnant women can develop dislikes and aversions as well of course they have cravings but sometimes they get pregnant so of whatever right this means i knew a woman that she could not smoke broccoli it made her throw up if there was broccoli anywhere something got chinese food if they had it in a salad if she smelt it from a million miles away she was running around trying to throw up and she said she still loved broccoli put she just could not even look at it smell it after the big board and after the baby was where she was back to eating broccoli so it had something to do with the pregnancy it's  strange but women's bodies change and they change a lot if you start to crave sweets or you know very unhealthy things they say be very very careful with your pregnancy you don't want to put on too much weight and w to develop distasteful by being exactly so you have to be careful but they do want you if you're pregnant to avoid soft cheeses raw eggs under cooked meets certain sushi's certain sprouts things like that so fish tuna fish because of the mercury processed meats but things that can have certain bacteria that could be very very harmful to your pregnancy so again if you are craving something when you're pregnant and you're not one hundred percent sure if you should go out and run and get that especially something like sushi or in the salad bar talk to your doctor make sure you're on the same page so that clearly you know what's safest for you in your body exactly and you know cravings they happen right it's part of life yeah we give it to them sometimes and sometimes we fight them really hard and we win and we don't give in to the craving how many people can't drive past  i can i don't i used to work there so i think i'm past that because i had felt like a donut for a million years and i made too many of them and so it's not my thing but i'm sure there's people who are you know it's like you want to stop yeah there's things calling your name especially if you smell them as you're driving by you on the windows open you know sometimes you smell the burger places where the ribs are the steak place and then you're like oh my gosh i could go for some bridges right now you know that's how they get y right they put the smells out there and ribs and we discussed anything on the show that you have not said i love that you know because we're not doing the show about vegetables and fruits when we do that stuff before my stroke you see that you know so that the i guess your blood work is not always telling i mean you can eat unhealthy and your blood work may not necessarily show it here so it depends how you feel too i mean if you're feeling good and you're staying active then i guess that all comes into play as well yeah so we hope you learned a little bit more about your cravings will help if you're having any you can stay strong yeah stay tough and  only give into it a little bit don't is so ugly is real i don't eat a whole like blocking wheel of cheese maybe just have a couple slices couple spoke a couple spokes and thanks for watching today and always remember get