Reason: Winter
Throughout millions of years of evolution, the human body studied to adapt to weather conditions and the change of seasons. Actually, we are all the descendants of those who have learned to rebuild their metabolism at the first signs of cooling. Short Dark Day and Long Night The body perceives as a reason to synthesize hormones responsible for the accumulation of fat and energy savings. Let supermarkets now work around the clock, and winter does not force at home and fall into the hibernation, but the ancient settings cannot be canceled by logical arguments.
What to do:
- The main thing is not sitting on a diet, so the body will begin to require additional calories even more active. Better feed it with dishes that give a comfortable feeling of satiety at a minimum of calories. Ideal warm vegetable salads with beans and other bean, thick spicy soups, oily sea fish.
- Use the achievements of civilization that helps imitate sunny days and "cheer" the body waiting for spring. The alarms, imitating dawn, the lamps of the cold blue spectrum and adequate doses of vitamin D greatly proven themselves in medical practice.
Cause: Chrome deficiency
An irresistible thrust for food, especially sweet, can talk about the shortage of vitamins and trace elements. A frequent problem is a lack of chromium. This element is involved in carbohydrate exchange, improving glucose permeability - the main source of energy. With a shortage of chromium, nutrients from the blood can not get into the cell, which, in turn, aggravates the craving for rapid carbohydrates.
What to do:
- First of all discuss the problem with your doctor and make blood test for the content of macro and and trace elements.
- As the prevention of chromium deficiency, beer yeast, eggs, nuts, liver, solid cheese can be used.
Non-slip often provokes a sense of hunger
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Cause: Non-shy
Sleep deficiency, as well as other types of stress (we will write out excessive physical exercise, supercooling, nervous stress) stimulates the enhanced production of the cortisol stress hormone. At short distances, it is even good - helps to cheer up the body and find a solution to the problem. However, several days of lack of sleep, as well as chronic stress, in principle, cause the body under the action of cortisol to change balance and other hormones. In particular, the synthesis of leptin is reduced responsible for saturation, and the hormone level of famine Grethin is reduced, on the contrary, it grows.
What to do:
High-quality sleep is one of the most important components of happy and healthy life. All that is required of you is just to spend your legitimate 7-8 hours in bed. And let the serials and chocolates wait.
Cause: Many Salts
The reason that the body is constantly asking for food, can hide in the food itself. The main suspects are salted and spicy dishes, as well as sweet carbonated drinks.
What to do:
- Count how much salt in your daily diet. WHO and the Ministry of Health of Russia are solidiner in recommendation to use no more than 5 g of sodium chlorine per day (for comparison, a typical resident of Russia eats two times more).
- Please note that salt is often hidden in products that do not seem salns. Often it is dry ready-made breakfasts, bread, all kinds of semi-finished products, sausages, cookies, canned food.
The reason that the body is constantly asking for food, can hide in the food itself
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Cause: Dehydration
It is no secret that thirst is often masked under hunger. In this case, it can disturb even after dense meals, but quickly passes, it is only worth drinking one or two glasses of water or herbal tea.
What to do:
- Keep track of drinking mode. The need for fluid depends on weather and physical activity, but on average, 30 ml of water per kilogram of body weight is.
- Reduce salt consumption, strong tea and other diuretic products.
Cause: Soon monthly
The level of one of the main female hormones - estrogen - constantly fluctuates during the cycle. In the days of ovulation, its peak concentration, and we can no longer think about food. But closer to the beginning of menstruation, the level of estrogen falls to a minimum, exciting a truly brutal appetite.
What to do:
In the last week, the cycle includes a sheet greens, bran and legumes in the menu - these products stabilize the hormonal background.
Please the body of a long walk in the fresh air: the functional physical exertion of the average intensity helps to cope with the attacks of appetite. And after, after you can reward yourself with a clean conscience.
Cause: Prediabet
Increased feeling of hunger - one of the disturbing symptoms of developing insulin resistance. This disease, in which glucose can not penetrate into the cell and provide it with energy, and the pulse is again sent to the brain again to activate the feeling of hunger.
What to do:
- Specify the diagnosis - therapist will surely prescribe a glucose-bearing test (laboratory blood test).
- Reduce the percentage of adipose tissue: its large amount, especially accumulated in the waist area, is associated with a high risk of insulin resistance.