Switch to हिंदी

Health, Fitness, Beauty & Diet | Pregnancy & Parenting | Diseases & Home Remedies | TheHealthSite.com

Health, Fitness, Beauty & Diet | Pregnancy & Parenting | Diseases & Home Remedies | TheHealthSite.com

हिंदी
  • Health A-Z
  • Home Remedies
  • Diseases
    • Type 1 Diabetes
    • Type 2 Diabetes
    • Cancer
    • Heart Attack
    • Pneumonia
    • Diseases A-Z
  • Diet & Fitness
    • Weight Management
    • Exercise & Body Building
    • Diet & Recipes
    • Yoga
  • Coronavirus
  • News
  • Pregnancy
    • Conceiving
    • Infertility
    • Labour & Delivery
    • Pregnancy week-by-week
    • Breastfeeding
    • Baby Names
  • Beauty
    • Skin
    • Hair
    • Grooming
  • Photos
  • Videos
BLA21 cibil.com ageas federal zee hindustan
Home / Topics / Food craving

Food craving

A food craving is an intense desire to consume a specific food, and is different from normal hunger. It may or may not be related to specific hunger, the drive to consume particular nutrients that is well-studied in animals.

Craving certain types of food or getting put off by certain smells or tastes are also common during pregnancy. Though nutritionists believe that this can be combated by eating a well-balanced diet, many women do feel the urge to eat something specific which they normally won’t. The cravings for certain types of food are linked to their ingredients. Chocolate or sugar cravings for example, contains the amino acid phenylethylamine, which is important for the regulation of the body’s release of endorphins.

Theories claim that many of the cravings women sometimes have for strange foods during pregnancy can be attributed to important nutrients that are required during that specific period. One of the treatments for morning sickness consists in accommodating food cravings and aversions. It’s not that the body actually needs the specific food you are craving, but it may need something in that food. And your taste buds just interpret it as a craving for something specific. 

Studies show that the high hormone levels present during pregnancy can alter both a woman’s sense of taste and smell. So certain foods and odors can not only be more enticing but in some cases more offensive; a problem that often plays out as a pregnancy food aversion. While some pregnancy cravings can certainly seem a bit odd, in most instances, they don’t represent any real threat to mother or the baby. This, however, can change dramatically, when the craving is for a nonfood item. The condition, known as pica, can lead to an overwhelming desire to consume any number of substances, some of which can be extremely harmful to both mother and baby.


  • Weight loss: Healthy alternatives for times when unhealthy food cravings strike

    Weight loss: Healthy alternatives for times when unhealthy food cravings strike

    It can be difficult to curb cravings, especially when you are on a diet. If you are wondering what you should do to satisfy those cravings, here are some healthy alternatives you can choose.

  • Read this if you feel hungry all the time!

    Read this if you feel hungry all the time!

    Burger, french fries, fried chicken, biriyani and still hungry? Better get yourself checked

  • Your food cravings decoded

    Your food cravings decoded

    Always craving for a certain type of food? It could indicate an imbalance in your body.

  • Know why some people crave salt and sugar

    Know why some people crave salt and sugar

    Cravings, be it salt or sugar, it's actually consuming the food that can be damaging to your body.

  • Study: Night time snacking linked with poor sleep, obesity

    Study: Night time snacking linked with poor sleep, obesity

    The results showed that about 60 per cent of the participants reported regular nighttime snacking and two-thirds reported that lack of sleep led them to crave more junk food.

  • Brain stimulation with magnetic energy can help reduce food cravings in obese people

    Brain stimulation with magnetic energy can help reduce food cravings in obese people

    The technique has yielded positive results after just a single treatment session, revealing its potential to become a safer alternative to treat obesity, avoiding invasive surgery and drug side effects.

  • Why do women crave for chocolates during periods?

    Why do women crave for chocolates during periods?

    Here is why you want to devour that chocolate bar during your periods.

  • 3 reasons why you are unable to control your cravings

    3 reasons why you are unable to control your cravings

    Neha Shetty, Nutritionist and Senior Manager, Reduce, Mumbai, tells us why it is difficult for us to control cravings.

  • 5 things you should do to control overeating, emotional eating and cravings

    5 things you should do to control overeating, emotional eating and cravings

    Neha Shetty, Nutritionist and Senior Manager, Reduce, Mumbai tells us what one can do right to curb cravings.

  • Weight loss tip #216: Cheat meal once a week Vs cheat nibbles every day

    Weight loss tip #216: Cheat meal once a week Vs cheat nibbles every day

    Does your craving for junk make you reach for a packet of chips once a day?

  • Pica - the weird craving for non-food items like hair, glass, chalk, paper & more

    Pica - the weird craving for non-food items like hair, glass, chalk, paper & more

    Find out why some people eat hair, nails, coins, paint and other inedible things.

  • Got the munchies? Find out why you crave junk food or desserts or spicy treats and how to fix it!

    Got the munchies? Find out why you crave junk food or desserts or spicy treats and how to fix it!

    Stress or other health issues can lead to food cravings -- from eating ice cubes to ice creams and pickles to paints! What is your poison?

  • Eat spicy food to curb unhealthy craving for salt

    Eat spicy food to curb unhealthy craving for salt

    If you eat spicy foods there are greater chances that you would crave less for salt and have lower blood pressure.

  • Why eating snacks makes you hungrier (Diet query)

    Why eating snacks makes you hungrier (Diet query)

    Plus, how you can stop yourself from snacking mindlessly.

  • Eating these 10 foods before bed is a very bad idea!

    Eating these 10 foods before bed is a very bad idea!

    No, indulging in that tub of ice-cream at night is not a good idea.

  • Weight Loss Tip #161 – Don’t ban any foods from your diet plan

    Weight Loss Tip #161 – Don’t ban any foods from your diet plan

    Here's why you should moderate your food consumption instead of trying to completely exclude your favourite high-calorie foods from your diet.

  • Eat cucumber to deal with salt cravings

    Eat cucumber to deal with salt cravings

    Here's an expert tip that can help you to deal with salt cravings in a healthy way.

  • 10 ways to distract yourself from eating out of boredom

    10 ways to distract yourself from eating out of boredom

    These simple tips will distract you from binge eating junk food while you're bored at home and help in sticking to your diet.

  • Study says non-invasive brain stimulation can reduce food cravings

    Study says non-invasive brain stimulation can reduce food cravings

    Non-invasive stimulation of a specific brain area can reduce food cravings, particularly for high-calorie appetite foods, revealed a study.

  • Found -- a food supplement to help you reduce junk food cravings

    Found -- a food supplement to help you reduce junk food cravings

    Eating a type of powdered food supplement, based on a molecule produced by bacteria in the gut, reduces cravings for high-calorie foods such as chocolate, cake and pizza, a new study suggested.

  • 1
  • 2
  • »
Read Disclaimer

Coronavirus Updates

Coronavirus Updates

Stay Informed, Be Safe

  • ‘Follow rules or else we will follow you’: Mumbai police tweets amid COVID-19 surge
  • COVID-19 negative report mandatory for passengers traveling to these states: Check it out
  • Moderna completes making vaccine for South African COVID-19 strain, starting human testing soon
  • New highly contagious COVID-19 variant spreading rapidly across New York
  • Indian company develops triple-combination pills for migraine, gets FDA approval

Recent Posts

  • ‘Follow rules or else we will follow you’: Mumbai police tweets amid COVID-19 surge
  • Benefits of living near green spaces: It can reduce stress, delay menopause, decrease violence and more
  • Even light activity, like shopping or a casual walk, can protect mobility in older women
  • COVID-19 negative report mandatory for passengers traveling to these states: Check it out
  • Eating high glycemic diet may increase your chances of heart attacks, death risk

Health Calculators

BMI Calculator
bmi Calculator
Ideal Body Weight
ideal body weight
Daily Calorie Intake
Daily calorie intake
Calories Burned
calories burned

Health News in Hindi

40 साल के बाद हड्डियों को मज़बूत रखने के लिए महिलाएं लें ऐसी डायट, कम होगा अन्य बीमारियों का भी ख़तरा

Coconut For Thyroid: थायराइड रोग से छुटकारा दिलाता है नारियल, इन 4 तरीकों से करेंगे सेवन तो जरूर होगा फायदा

ग्रीवा शक्ति विकासक योगासन: गर्दन के दर्द को दूर करने का एक नैचुरल तरीका, जानिए अन्‍य फायदे और योग करने का तरीका

Corona Vaccine: 1 मार्च से 45 वर्ष से अधिक उम्र के लोगों को फ्री मिलेगी कोरोना की डोज, जानें वैक्‍सीन लेने का पूरा प्रोसेस

बढ़ती उम्र में कभी ना महसूस होगा अकेलापन, इन 5 हेल्थ टिप्स के साथ जिएं जिंदादिल और खुशहाल ज़िंदगी

Read All

Recent Posts

  • ‘Follow rules or else we will follow you’: Mumbai police tweets amid COVID-19 surge
  • Benefits of living near green spaces: It can reduce stress, delay menopause, decrease violence and more
  • Even light activity, like shopping or a casual walk, can protect mobility in older women
  • COVID-19 negative report mandatory for passengers traveling to these states: Check it out
  • Eating high glycemic diet may increase your chances of heart attacks, death risk

About The health Site

TheHealthSite.com is India's largest health site with more than 40 lakh unique visitors per month. We focus on fitness, beauty, health, pregnancy and more.

Most popular health and wellness website in India in 2012 at the Website of the year awards.

health@corp.india.com
+91 – 22 – 6697 1234
Landline Phone number 91 – 22 – 2490 0302.

ZEE ENTERTAINMENT ENTERPRISES LTD, 18th floor, A-Wing, Marathon Futurex, N. M. Joshi Marg, Lower Parel, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400013.

Useful Links

  • Weight Loss
  • Keto Diet Tips
  • Skin Care Tips
  • Intermittent Fasting
  • Apple Cider Vinegar
  • Ashwagandha
  • Cancer
  • Pneumonia
  • Diarrhoea
  • Dengue
  • Typhoid
  • Tuberculosis
  • Chickenpox
  • Chikungunya
  • Depression
  • Hepatitis
  • Diabetes
  • Type 2 diabetes
  • Arthritis
  • Swine Flu
  • Baby Names
  • Cough and cold
  • Heart Attack
  • Breast Cancer
  • Ebola Virus
  • Dengue
  • Malaria
  • International Yoga Day
  • Hypotension
  • Heart Failure
  • Asthma
  • Brain Tumour
  • Celebrity Fitness
  • Goitre
  • HIV/AIDS

We respect your privacy

  • Disclaimer
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Author Profiles

Copyright © 2021 Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited. All rights reserved.