Food Cravings

Bread can be a food craving

Causes of Common Food Cravings:

• Acid or sour food craving– Body is full of toxins
• Alcohol as a food craving– Imbalanced brain chemicals or mineral deficiencies
• Baked goods food craving– yeast, wheat allergy, emotional, lack of love
• Beef – food craving– Body low in phosphorus
• Beverages as a food craving– Phosphorus deficiency
• Bones– Calcium deficiency  See Ionic Minerals Handout
• Bread – food craving– yeast infection or wheat allergy
• Caffeine – food craving– Adrenal exhaustion (needs glandulars)
• Carbohydrates – food craving– Yeast or eating triggered by specific emotions or brain hormone imbalances
• Cheese – food craving– Yeast infection, sulfite allergy (orange cheeses)
• Chemicals (gasoline fumes, chlorine or petrochemicals)- allergy
• Chalk or Plaster– Calcium deficiency
• Chocolate – food craving– Cocoa allergy, lack of love, craving more phenylethylalanine (the love hormone), hormonal imbalances
• Cold weather or prior to rain storms– Mold allergies
• Food Cravings, same time every day- decreased serotonin
• Food Cravings, about the same time each day-Cortisone cyclic rhythm changes.
• Food Food Cravings, winter months– Possible mold allergies
• Food Cravings, night– Allergy withdrawal signs or decreased adrenal function
• Dirt or Clay– Mineral or trace mineral deficiency
• Fatigue/Insomnia, cravings with– Low energy, adrenal exhaustion
• Feces- Cow poop, Horse poop– Enzyme deficiency or trace minerals
• Feces- Dog poop (as a dog) Improper potty training by humans
• Fish and Shrimp – food craving– Iodine deficiency, hypothyroidism
• Ice Cubes– Iron or B6 deficiency
• Ice Cream food craving – Calcium deficiency, yeast
• Licorice – food craving– Salt and/or water deficiency (Licorice increases retention of water therefore leading to High Blood Pressure)
• Food craving of midnight snacks – try eating frozen foods like melon/grapefruit
• Milk – food craving– Low calcium, diminished parathyroid function, poss. yeast
• Nutritional supplements, cravings with– wrong type of supplements
• Orange Juice – food craving– Allergic addiction to same
• Pepper, Black- as a food craving– Chromium or chromium picolinate deficiency
• Peanut Butter – food craving– Possible mold/mildew allergies
• PMS, cravings from– Decreased progesterone, Trace mineral or vitamin deficiencies.
• Pregnancy, cravings during– Zinc deficiency
• Food craving of salt– Sodium deficiency or decreased sensitivity to salt
• Smoking, cravings with– Nicotine is suppressing insulin levels
• Soda Pop – food craving– Phosphorus, Calcium, Magnesium imbalances.
• Sugar – food craving– Corn allergy, Yeast infection
• Water– Diabetes, Addison’s disease
• Water- Craving at night– Salt deficiency (Try Celtic Sea Salt-it has way more minerals in it than any salt including the “sea salt” you see in the health food store!)

Reference: No More Cravings by Douglas Hunt, MD. c.1987 (More information on food cravings)