How to Cure Your Food Cravings, Cancer Doctor Colleen Huber

Lessons from Food Cravings

By Colleen Huber, NMD

“When Your Body Craves Certain Foods, It Actually Is Looking For Nutrients” – Colleen Huber

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This chart was first published by Colleen Huber on her website and then in her book “CHOOSE YOUR FOODS: Like Your Life Depends on Them, by Colleen Huber, NMD” in 2007. Here is an excerpt:

Food cravings can seem strong enough to pick you up and carry you straight to the refrigerator or convenience store independent of your will and better judgment. For many women, cravings are especially intense in the week or so before menstruation. But many men, older women, teens and children can have strong cravings too. Let’s look at what is behind this force. Naturopathic physician Tori Hudson, ND, describes the condition as a mild malnutrition, certainly not with severe overt consequences as say scurvy or rickets. Rather, a great many people on the Standard American Diet (SAD in more ways than one) suffer from a milder malnutrition from eating only depleted, processed foods and not enough whole, nutrient-rich foods.

As a result, we end up craving the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients that we lack. But while your body may know that you are missing for example potassium, your conscious mind is not aware of the flavor of potassium. Instead, because of familiarity, you can reminisce and feel hungry for the flavor of salty foods, which are high in another cation, sodium, and which have their appeal partly rooted in sodium and potassium. The salty foods that your conscious mind desires has its greatest ability to quench those cravings due to the salty foods’ high sodium content.

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Colleen Huber has found that cravings are actually the manifestation of a mild malnutrition, which is very widespread, even in well-to-do societies. We go into this at length in Chapter 11 of the book. So we end up craving the vitamins and especially minerals that we lack. The chocolate that your conscious mind desires has its greatest ability to quench those cravings due to chocolate’s high magnesium content.

Of course, the sugar in commercially prepared chocolate is another desperate desire when you have ridden the sugar-insulin roller coaster long enough to plummet to the abyss of hypoglycemia. The food cravings of PMS are due to poor glucose tolerance brought on by diets that are high in refined carbohydrates. Refined sugars deplete the body’s supplies of B-vitamins, chromium, magnesium, zinc and manganese, and the resulting deficiencies then manifest as cravings for other foods. What adds insult to injury here is that whole sugar cane is actually high in these minerals. In fact, of all known plants, the one with the highest known proportion of chromium is, of all things, sugar cane. Chromium is necessary for insulin function and to modulate blood sugar levels. Then the refining process strips out the minerals, so that the whole food, which nature put together so wisely, now becomes something that destroys our health, heaves our blood sugar and blood insulin into grotesque chaos, and leaves us craving what the refining process threw away.

This simply adds to the mountain of evidence that nature knew what she was doing when she made whole food. This is not to say that sugar cane or the minimally processed molasses should be consumed. The torture of the huge sugar-insulin assault on your pancreas and liver and brain is really not worth the minerals gained from eating it. Those minerals are available from healthier sources.

If you are interested in food and how it effects your body, Colleen Huber has also done a recent clinical study on sugar, and how she found that her cancer patients who eliminated all types of sugar and sweets from their diets had double the survival rate of cancer patients who ate sugar. We have seen first hand at our natural cancer clinic the devastating effects of sugar on the human body, and as we recommend to all of our patients – the one food you should eliminate from your diet is SUGAR (in all of its forms). You will lose weight, have more energy, and be healthier; and you will feel the effects almost immediately. We feel this is the single most important thing that anyone can do with their diet to become healthier. If you are interested in learning about our fight find a natural cancer cure with alternative treatments please visit our homepage. To learn more about Colleen Huber, NMD click here.