CRAVING SOLUTION

CRAVING SOLUTION

Food is more than just fuel for our cells. Quality of life is directly associated with the quality and amount of food we eat. The simplest recipe for a happier, healthier longer life is calorie restriction combined with optimal nutrition. When you consume more nutritive calories, Mother Nature will control your weight.

It's widely known that food affects your mood. For example, chocolate and refined foods stimulate the secretion of brain substances such as dopamine and serotonin (“the hormones of happiness”), which lead to the feeling of satisfaction. But this pleasure is not always useful…after a certain period of time the need for “satisfaction producers” increases (similar to heroin and cocaine addiction). While the pleasure they're producing becomes less intensive, you are gaining more and more weight. Food is not a cure for sadness, insomnia, or loneliness. Food can't solve problems…it can only make them bigger. It nurtures your hunger not your appetite!

We all eat too much, and we take in many more calories than our body requires. Very often we eat when we are not hungry, and we eat when we are in an emotional state. Research shows that excessive food intake can cause diseases such as cancer, stroke, heart attack, senility, and inflammation. It also shortens our average life span. Do you need more arguments to start eating wiser?

We feel hungry only when our body needs more energy, while the on the other hand, appetite is the desire for food. It is a psychological reaction – a conditioned response to food. Sometimes just thinking about your favorite food will evoke your appetite.

One of the best instruments for appetite control is food.

1. Eat a healthy breakfast. That way your appetite will be controlled better throughout the day
2. Eliminate processed food from your diet…it only contains empty calories which enhance your appetite. Choose nutritive calories instead.
3. Choose complex, slow burning carbohydrates.
4. Add protein to every meal.
5. Try to eat every day at the same time so you train your appetite hormones -- ghrelin and leptin.
6. Try supplements such as Chromium Picolinate, CLA, diet fibers, resveratrol, calcium, magnesium and vitamins B6 and B12.

And don’t forget, better control of your appetite - better control of your life.