What causes food cravings?

October 7, 2009 by Linda Lazarides
Filed under Blog

I may be biased but I think low-carb and GI diets are on the way out. They’ve had a good run for their money, but I’ve just been trawling through the latest archives of medical research and have been discovering new facts which I think will make these diets obsolete.

I’ve worked a lot with overweight people, and it’s very clear that the biggest problem is not how to shed a few pounds by temporarily changing your eating habits. The biggest problem is food cravings. People can’t bear to give up their favourite foods for very long. The minute you’ve lost those pounds, you go straight back to the foods you crave, and the weight comes straight back too. We’ve all been there and know how tough it is.

No diet is the real solution unless it makes things less tough and really helps people to reduce their cravings.

New research is showing that certain food ingredients commonly found in the supermarket cart, not only intensify cravings, but also put your fat gain hormones into overdrive. This fat is gained mostly around your middle.

Neither low-carb, GI nor Weightwatchers programs take these new facts into account.

More info at www.health-diets.net/flat-stomach/