According to nutritionist Daria Rusakova, cravings for sweet foods often hide psychological problems, as well as carbohydrate abuse.
The nutritionist said in an interview that the need to eat sweets can mean a person’s unconscious desire to cope with a psychologically depressed state. Such a reflex is often formed in childhood, when a child is given some kind of sweetness to relieve resentment, crying, or help to survive the pain received. In adulthood, as Rusakova noted,
“eating sweets is a way of getting pleasure or eating stress, experiences.”
Another common cause of sugar cravings is anemia, in which there is a decrease in the number of red blood cells in the blood that carry oxygen throughout the body. Anemia can occur as a result of a lack of iron, B vitamins, so if you have an increased desire to eat sweets, you should check the condition of the blood, the doctor advised. requires some products, chocolate, for example, precisely because of latent anemia, ”Rusakova told Izvestia.
The nutritionist added that in many cases, cravings for sweets hide the problem of unbalanced nutrition, consumption of a large amount of carbohydrate food in the diet – for example, the same bread or pasta.
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“From a nutritional point of view, in order to reduce the level of cravings for sweets, it is important to eat protein foods , as well as foods rich in dietary fiber – fruits, vegetables,” the expert stated.
Earlier, the MedikForum.ru portal wrote about the cases in which you can get fat due to alcohol. 
Darya Rusakova healthy lifestyle doctor -nutritionist