Eating healthy food may just be a matter of convincing yourself to do so.
By surrounding yourself with healthy choices, feeding your cravings can be accomplished with fruits, veggies, whole grains and low fat dairy.
Changing your habits will change your cravings.
“For most of human history, people didn’t have enough to eat, so fat was something you really needed to seek out,” says Marcia Pelchat, a food psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia.
Pelchat adds, however, that while we’re born with certain cravings, there’s also evidence we start to crave whatever we eat in large quantities. She found this when she put study subjects on a vanilla-flavored drink low in saturated fat. After consuming it every day for two weeks, about a third of the subjects reported craving the drink, even though she says, “It was chalky and not very yummy.”
