What is hidden behind the craving for sweets: doctors explain

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In some cases, cravings aggravated, everything sweet can hide a dangerous disorder – insulin resistance, which can indicate existing diabetes.

Doctors shared explanations about what can be hidden behind the increased craving for sweets. According to one of the experts, a nutritionist, stress or a lack of magnesium in the body is often the cause of this.

Often, a craving for sweets is a signal that the body is undernourished, even if a person eats a lot. When the diet contains a lot of processed foods, refined carbohydrates, its caloric content can be high, but at the same time, the diet can lack nutrients – proteins, vitamins, minerals. As a result, the body begins to starve.

“Hungry is often hidden behind the craving for sweets. To solve the problem, it is necessary to diversify your diet and eat without haste, so that the body has time to get enough,” the doctor shared her advice.

From the comment of another expert, general practitioner Nataliya Horn, it follows that people with a strong craving for sweets differ people who have insulin resistance – this disorder means that the cells of the body have lost sensitivity to the hormone insulin, which ensures that sugar enters them.

This hormone is produced in response to the consumption of food containing carbohydrates. Such food increases the level of sugar in the blood and insulin becomes the conductor of this sugar into the cells that process it into energy. When resistance occurs, the cells do not respond to the hormone, and as a result, the blood sugar level increases, hyperglycemia develops, and the prerequisites for the development of diabetes arise. tests, check insulin and blood sugar levels.