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Regular Food Cravings-
Weight Loss Disrupter
Do you always crave for food,
in spite of having your daily routine lunches and breakfasts?
Do you always want to talk about food?....
Date : January 10, 2006
Do you always crave for food,
in spite of having your daily routine lunches and breakfasts?
Do you always want to talk about food?
Restricting one self to these
urges is a difficult challenge in front of many people. In
fact these people could overcome their cravings if they just
took some cautious responsibility until the craving. Experts
say there's a difference between real hunger and cravings.
Hunger is a biological need to eat something because your
stomach is empty, while a craving is an intense desire for
a specific food. Like while watching a movie, one may think,
"I've got to have some popcorn."
Most obesity researchers say
many people have psychological desires for certain foods.
What they don't agree on is whether some desires for food
are also biological.
Some other researchers theorize
that people crave carbohydrates because of a deficiency of
the brain chemical serotonin. Other researchers say it's mostly
fat that people crave.
Scientists are still struggling
to pinpoint the psychological reasons for cravings, but they
say many cravings are caused by stress, anxiety,
depression and fatigue. Excess weight or obesity is a chronic
disease that affects many people and often requires medical
treatment to promote and sustain weight
loss.
There are many prescription
drugs available in the markets that are used to suppress the
craving for food. Like wise, Phentermine, a prescription medication,
can be used to assist with the battle of obesity. Similar
to this very common drug, Adipex, Didrex, Bontril, Meridia
and more have been launched in the market and are being safely
prescribed by doctors.
These drugs work by suppressing
appetite via a central mechanism in the brain. These drugs
should be used as a short term drug to help patients to start
losing weight while the patient is undergoing permanent long
term changes in their attitude towards food and exercise.
The body starts to build up a resistance to the effects of
these drugs after a few weeks of treatment, by which time
the patient should be well on their way to a new lifestyle.
For maximum effect, these drugs
must be used in conjunction with a diet and exercise program.
These drugs should not taken as the last option but regular
exercise and a healthy diet along side will definitely lead
to better mind and a hale and hearty body!
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