Yearning for something that involves food is considered to be a weakness, a proof of the lack of will. I’m looking every day at colleagues that can not help themselves from tasting “just a little bit” of their children’s snack or chocolate bar, because they say they “can’t help it”. I mean come on, this is understandable in pregnant women, but when in happens every day both in women and men, it must mean something is definitely wrong with those persons.
And I go home with that though in mind, being convinced that I’m above all that, until I see an ice cream commercial on the TV. And even if I’ve already had my share of sweets that day, I “can’t help it” and I just have to rush to the nearest store and buy some ice cream myself… And almost every time I do this, I get overwhelmed by a huge sentiment of quilt right after…right after I eat the entire box, of course. I’ve always wondered if these desires have a psychological explanation. This would make them almost…logic, right?
So, I started reading a lot about this. I asked around, I even asked my doctor…he asked me back if I were pregnant. That was pretty discouraging in my search for finding a logical explanation for all these yearns. But, after gathering contradictory information from various sources, I found the answer I was after by…looking at small kids. Kids that small that they don’t know yet the hidden pleasures of modern alimentation, or at least they shouldn’t. Small kids will never ask for ice-cream if they never tasted it, because they don’t know what it is. Their body is not responding in any way when the eyes see it. They might desire it out of curiosity, but that’s a whole different matter. The idea is that these yearns come from the things our body needs at certain moments. The things it asks for. We must not condemn these yearns, but instead we should try to replace the unhealthy sources with beneficial ones.
I personally yearn for stuff like chocolate a lot, and especially when I have lots of work to do or when I haven’t slept well. It seems that this yearn is actually a warning sign that the glucoses’ metabolism has reached an unbalanced point and it causes the magnesium levels to decrease. This basically means that our body is asking for a fast energy source.
This explanation made me realize why the chocolate yearning sensation usually comes at night, after a busy and full day. To avoid the imminent attacks over whole chocolate boxes, I try to eat as many stuff rich in good sugars as possible during the day. Things like fruits, cereals, and even cereal snacks or honey do help in this situations. And since magnesium has to do something with this need of chocolate, I’m also trying to keep its levels high, even if all I do is take a supplement that contains it.




















