Yes, you can satisfy your desires if you tweak the way you think about food
No matter how riveting this week's episode of "Lost" is, when all you really want is a chocolate chip cookie, it seems impossible to focus on anything else until you take that first bite.
Although it's true (and truly frustrating) that we don’t crave healthy eats such as carrots with the same intensity as not-so-healthy treats like chocolate, new studies provide some much-needed hope to would-be overeaters everywhere: You can learn to curb cravings without feeling deprived. Scientists have zeroed in on the source of cravings (your head, not your belly) and figured out ingenious ways to tweak the way you think about food, so you crave less and feel satisfied with smaller bites.
Snack smarter
It's not a cruel joke that our favorite noshes happen to be the bad boys of the food world. Our desire for all things decadent may date back thousands of years, to when high-calorie eats were dietary heroes.
"Throughout most of history, food scarcity was a real risk, so it made sense for the body to encourage eating," says Evan Forman, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
No matter how riveting this week's episode of "Lost" is, when all you really want is a chocolate chip cookie, it seems impossible to focus on anything else until you take that first bite.
Although it's true (and truly frustrating) that we don’t crave healthy eats such as carrots with the same intensity as not-so-healthy treats like chocolate, new studies provide some much-needed hope to would-be overeaters everywhere: You can learn to curb cravings without feeling deprived. Scientists have zeroed in on the source of cravings (your head, not your belly) and figured out ingenious ways to tweak the way you think about food, so you crave less and feel satisfied with smaller bites.
Snack smarter
It's not a cruel joke that our favorite noshes happen to be the bad boys of the food world. Our desire for all things decadent may date back thousands of years, to when high-calorie eats were dietary heroes.
"Throughout most of history, food scarcity was a real risk, so it made sense for the body to encourage eating," says Evan Forman, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
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