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[헤럴드경제=육성연 기자] Not with a burning will alone. Even if you try hard to control your diet while dieting, if the habit of inducing food cravings is repeated, overeating or binge eating may appear. Food craving, the biggest hindrance to diet, also appears through unexpected habits.
▶lack of carbohydrates in the morning
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First of all, if the ‘carbohydrates’ supplied in the morning are insufficient, cravings may occur. A study by a team of researchers from the University of Bath and the University of Nottingham, UK, published in The Journal of Physiology (2017), found that those who ate breakfast had less sugar storage in their body. The research team analyzed that this is because a breakfast that is balanced with nutrients, including carbohydrates, helps manage blood sugar.
Also, a journal of the American College of Cardiology (2019) published in the University of Iowa (2019) found that people who do not eat breakfast every day have bad habits, such as being less physically active, overeating at lunch, and eating high-calorie snacks. done.
▶eat sweet foods often
Sweet foods are also factors that make you eat more sugar and food. According to medical experts, after eating sugar, blood sugar rises and insulin is secreted excessively, and in the process, a feeling of hunger and the urge to eat more sweets arise. In other words, there is a vicious cycle of sweet foods calling for sweet foods.
▶starve unconditionally
Entering into an unconditional starvation operation is also a factor inducing food cravings. This is the reason why people eat a lot of high-calorie foods at once while managing their diet by strictly following 10 calories.
Cho-rong Park, a nutritionist at Busan 365mc Hospital, said, “If hunger persists, there will be a reward for it.” He added, “It is very difficult to control the amount of food when you are hungry because you have been starving for a long time, so it is helpful to eat two or more regular meals.”
▶Stress and poor sleep
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Even if you are depressed, stressed, and have trouble sleeping, binge eating may occur. Several papers on the relationship between stress and obesity have already been published. According to a thesis from the University of Alberta, Canada published in the latest issue of the International Journal of Behavioral Sciences, our bodies store the calories we eat because our bodies view stress as a ‘crisis situation’ that fights the outside world. In addition, high-calorie foods produce dopamine, which makes you feel good, so when you are stressed, the psychology of looking for high-calorie foods occurs.
It is also related to sleep. Nutritionist Park Cho-rong said, “When you don’t get enough sleep, the secretion of ghrelin, a hormone that promotes appetite, increases and the secretion of leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite, decreases. In other words, in order to control the weight, it is advice that it is helpful to solve stress through regular exercise along with sufficient sleep.
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