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- Taetzsch, Das, and their colleagues found that heightened food cravings were associated with specific behaviors (poorer diet quality and less healthier eating patterns) and cardio-metabolic characteristics (higher body mass index, or BMI, and waist circumference).
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Sep 1, 2020 · Our findings of significant associations of food cravings with lower diet quality, poor eating patterns, and unfavorable body composition strongly support efforts of targeting cravings in behavioral programs for weight management.
- Amy Taetzsch, Susan B. Roberts, Cheryl H. Gilhooly, Alice H. Lichtenstein, Amy J. Krauss, Asma Bukha...
- 2020
A food craving is an intense and persistent desire for a food, but that craving isn’t always for something delicious. It can also be caused by a nutritional deficiency, boredom, or self-imposed food restrictions. [4]
Aug 3, 2020 · Taetzsch, Das, and their colleagues found that heightened food cravings were associated with specific behaviors (poorer diet quality and less healthier eating patterns) and cardio-metabolic characteristics (higher body mass index, or BMI, and waist circumference).
Jan 1, 2019 · Our findings of significant associations of food cravings with lower diet quality, poor eating patterns, and unfavorable body composition strongly support efforts of targeting cravings in behavioral programs for weight management.
- Maija Taylor
- 2019
Key takeaway: 'Higher food cravings are associated with lower diet quality, poor eating patterns, and unfavorable body composition, supporting the need to target cravings in behavioral programs for weight management.'
Many of us believe that a food craving is our body’s way of signalling that it needs a certain nutrient. But research shows that’s unlikely to be true – with one possible exception.
We first demonstrated that cognitive strategies decrease craving for unhealthy foods by emphasizing their negative consequences, increase craving for healthy foods by emphasizing their positive benefits, and importantly, change food valuation (willingness to pay) for both healthy and unhealthy foods [44].
