Beat Your Sugar Cravings

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June/July 2005
By Rachel Albert-Matesz 
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8. Problem: Trying to soothe your emotional pain with sweets.

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No amount of dessert will satisfy your emotional needs or take away your troubles. Reaching for cookies, pastries, ice cream and other high-sugar foods when you feel fearful, angry, lonely, bored, depressed or stressed usually will give you more grief: aches, pains, indigestion, excess body fat and health problems that can make you feel even worse.

Solution: Find healthy ways to satisfy your needs.

Explore nonfood ways to release pent-up energy and create balance in your life. Unwind with a walk, a nap or a relaxation tape. Oust anger by running, riding your bicycle or taking a martial arts or other exercise class.ance the blues away. Take up tai chi, chi gong, collage making, painting, drawing or meditating. Have fun.

9. Problem: Physical depletion.

Adrenal exhaustion can contribute to cravings for stimulants, such as salt, sugar, alcohol, coffee or drugs.oes the food or drink you crave contain caffeine? Does it drug you, numb you, take you away from the truth or keep you going when you’d otherwise collapse from exhaustion?

Solution: Discover what your body really needs.

What do you want more of and less of in your life? You may benefit from extra sleep, a day or weekend off, gentle exercise, meditation, relaxation tapes, massage, psychotherapy or acupuncture. Search for the root cause of your exhaustion; then commit to your own regeneration and healing.d

Rachel Albert-Matesz is co-author of The Garden of Eating: A Produce-Dominated Diet & Cookbook (to order, visit www.MotherEarthNews.com). She lives in Phoenix, where she is a personal chef and teaches cooking classes.

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  • tapit 7/4/2007 1:32:22 AM

    Does anyone see a conflict between item 2 and 3 above. One says not
    enough carbs, one says not enough protein. And both are correct -
    it is the balance of protein and carbohydrates that is individual
    to each person which creates the craving. See
    http://www.squidoo.com/control-cravings-eft/ for more details.

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