By the way, after dieting for awhile I do not crave sugar at all except for very rare occasions. I plan to keep it this way by not becoming addicted to it again.
BECAUSE IT TASTE GOOOOOOD! Simple as that.
The real answer is… your body wants certain things, if you were in the wilderness and were low on iron or other mineral deficiencies then you would crave things that would make you throw up in normal every day life… fish eyes for example… well you would have to taste them first but after that you would crave it.
My .02, we have easy access to junk foods loaded with bad things. Most of us have grown up eating this way and our bodies have grown used to it. I’m a FFB and I’ve learned to like foods like lean meats and such.
I still crave pizza and other bad things, but I really don’t crave ice cream, chocolate, etc. very often. You can change your cravings with consistent diet control.
Our body craves high calorie food because throughout 99% of human history our biggest concern was starvation.
I think its also our enviornment. Shit food is readily available anywhere in America and eating in colossal amounts is condoned during the holidays. I just man up and tell myself that I’m stronger than this putrid piece of sweet potato pie and gleefully eat one tablespoon and give the rest to some poor unsuspecting relative. Moderation is the key. my two centavos.
Your body just adapts and gets used to whatever your doing to it… if you eat lots of junk, your body unfortunately adapts as best as it can. On the other hand you can use this to your advantage as it can work the other way as well. Speaking for myself, my diet is pretty much 95%+ clean and I have no problem avoiding problematic foods/crap food at all.
chocolate is high in magnesium - maybe one is deficient in magnesium. when i started supplementing with extra mag, i don’t crave chocolate anymore - i can take it or leave it.
beer? i haven’t the foggiest…
Most things that taste good are manufactured. Companies sit there and try to concoct stuff we’ll like. Think of Coke…it’s liquid candy and people drink it all the time, but it’s purely something created by man. You wouldn’t find something like Coke out in nature.
My point is, companies saw what we liked…sugar, fat, etc…started mixing it all together to create a product and sold it to us. Turns out the stuff is addictive, which is exactly what those companies want, but with the side effect of it being damn unhealthy.
[quote]Digity wrote:
Most things that taste good are manufactured. Companies sit there and try to concoct stuff we’ll like. Think of Coke…it’s liquid candy and people drink it all the time, but it’s purely something created by man. You wouldn’t find something like Coke out in nature.
My point is, companies saw what we liked…sugar, fat, etc…started mixing it all together to create a product and sold it to us. Turns out the stuff is addictive, which is exactly what those companies want, but with the side effect of it being damn unhealthy.[/quote]
Pretty funny, but I thought about that exact idea of ‘mixing together’ once - if you took a ‘meal’ from McDonalds and threw it in a blender…how greasy and nasty that’d be.
But I have to say that ‘most things that taste good are manufactured’ is kind of wrong. Fresh foods and non-processed foods are perfect the way they are…but even with our vegetables and fruits we’re dealing with ‘engineered’ products.
This is kind of a philosophical question, but it does relate to us being weak, us being susceptible to the ideas that if there’s an excuse there’s a way. Look at some of the reasons given:
It’s a form of addiction.
It’s in our genes.
Big business brainwashed us to like it.
But we’re in a society now that accepts the buck-passing like this for any number of bad things we do, or allow to happen.
I know why I eat like crap, or have eaten that way (and am fixing it now). I lost focus on what’s really important, and health is #1, or should be. Because you can’t take care of your family from 6 feet under.
Probably more of a ramble than you wanted.
[quote]50_Caliber wrote:
My .02, we have easy access to junk foods loaded with bad things. Most of us have grown up eating this way and our bodies have grown used to it. I’m a FFB and I’ve learned to like foods like lean meats and such.
I still crave pizza and other bad things, but I really don’t crave ice cream, chocolate, etc. very often. You can change your cravings with consistent diet control.[/quote]
Damn, you beat me to my point.
I grew up eating Ukrainian food. I crave it.
I grew up eating meat. I crave it.
I grew up eating fruit. Guess what… I crave it.
Bodies adapt to what is being ingested and they learn to grow with that food. Although some food is extremely ineffecient in providing necessary nutrients for growth, our bodies still learn to live with it, even though they don’t live healthy.
But what the body needs is a major factor in what we crave. Since I am growing right now, my body just craves food in general, all the time.
[quote]zephead4747 wrote:
I was always under the assumption we want calorie dense foods because the more calories you eat, the more likely you are to survive if food becomes scarce.[/quote]
Bing!
200,000 years of evolution can’t account for the American Diet.
But we don’t really crave crap. That is an actual mental weakness. Humans’ don’t naturally crave McDonalds or dorritos. You put a Big Mac and fries out for your dog and put a plate with turkey breast, spinach, and some grapes next to it. You know what? The dog will instinctively go for the Turkey plate…unless your dog is really weird. Really, we don’t instinctively want crap.
Crap foods contain an element of actual, chemical addiction to them as well. The combination of cheese proteins and beef proteins combined with the caffine in a Coke makes a happy meal chemically addictive. The high levels of sugar a lot of junk foods have is also addictive.
You crave this shit because you’ve been brainwashed into purchasing it, everyone you know eats it, and you’re addicted to it. It’s a nearly inescapable part of American culture.
Supply yourself with good, real food. You may miss the convenience of junk but you won’t miss the taste.
[quote]ukrainian wrote:
50_Caliber wrote:
My .02, we have easy access to junk foods loaded with bad things. Most of us have grown up eating this way and our bodies have grown used to it. I’m a FFB and I’ve learned to like foods like lean meats and such.
I still crave pizza and other bad things, but I really don’t crave ice cream, chocolate, etc. very often. You can change your cravings with consistent diet control.
Damn, you beat me to my point.
I grew up eating Ukrainian food. I crave it.
I grew up eating meat. I crave it.
I grew up eating fruit. Guess what… I crave it.
Bodies adapt to what is being ingested and they learn to grow with that food. Although some food is extremely ineffecient in providing necessary nutrients for growth, our bodies still learn to live with it, even though they don’t live healthy.
But what the body needs is a major factor in what we crave. Since I am growing right now, my body just craves food in general, all the time.[/quote]
That still doesn’t explain gas station hot dogs. 