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Combat Your Food Cravings
June 1st, 2009
Finish a meal and go straight for the cookie jar? Have to drink a soda with dinner? Arizona-based naturopath Colleen Huber says all food cravings are really your body trying to tell you it needs more of certain minerals. Here are clues to what your food cravings could be trying to tell you—and how to satisfy them the healthy way.
| If you crave: | What you really need is: | Eat the healthy source instead: |
| Sweets | Chromium | Broccoli, grapes, cheese, dried beans, chicken |
| Carbon | Fresh fruits | |
| Phosphorus | Chicken, beef, liver, poultry, fish, eggs, nuts | |
| Sulfur | Cranberries, horseradish, cruciferous veggies, kale, cabbage | |
| Tryptophan | Cheese, liver, lamb, raisins, sweet potato, spinach | |
| Chocolate | Magnesium | Raw nuts and seeds, legumes, fruits |
| Salty foods | Chloride | Raw goat milk, fish, unrefined sea salt |
| Soda and carbonated drinks | Calcium | Mustard and turnip greens, broccoli, kale, legumes, cheese, sesame |
