Control Your Blood Sugar Cravings
January 29, 2009
Strong cravings for sweet things even when not hungry could be indicative of a blood sugar problem. But, if you check and find you’ve not eaten for many hours, then you are likely to discover your eating pattern will also be inconsistent due to the high cravings you will experience as a result of starving yourself.
This is why it is necessary to eat on time and consume nutritious, filling food – to avoid cravings; eat small meals, if necessary, but eat frequently as a gap of more than 4 hours between meals causes your blood sugar to fall very low, according to nutrition director, V. Berkowitz who works at the NY Centre for Balanced Health.
Being an M.S. she advises men who constantly have a craving for sugared food to not raid the fridge or head for the food court; in such an over-drive, uncontrolled sugar cravings can make you load up on unhealthy carbs and play havoc with your weight maintenance or loss goals.
Even as eating sugary stuff rapidly increases your blood sugar levels when cravings strike it also causes a rush of insulin from your pancreas and this hormone then affects blood sugar count while but also signalling your body to store up fat. In others, the insulin may go over the necessary count and send blood sugar levels crashing, so binging on food items, especially sugar or starchy things’ cravings, may be the risk.
However, you can learn to control your blood sugar cravings by avoiding things loaded with sugar, e.g. aerated drinks, artificially flavoured fruit juices, confectionary items besides foods high in starch (potatoes, rice, white bread, macaroni etc.). Instead, fill your stomach with healthy alternatives, like whole-wheat flour products that are tasty and fibre-rich besides being high in vitamins.
Men with blood sugar cravings occurring frequently should restrict their total carb intake daily to 30 to 40 grams gram dividing this between breakfast, lunch and supper. They should eat every 3-4 hours and load up on protein (eggs, nuts, meat etc.) at every meal to slow the digestion of carbs that stops rapid rise in blood sugar levels and thus controls the cravings that strike otherwise!
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