PICA & CRIBBING (Cravings & Binges)
Obesity and overweight problems are synonymous with Americans. Nibble,
nibble, nibble all the way home. "Pica" is a seeking, a craving with licking
and chewing behavior that has its genesis in mineral deficiencies - interestingly
enough neither vitamin deficiency, protein deficiency or calorie deficiency
initiates this "pica" behavior, nor will supplementing vitamins or eating
sugar, carbohydrate, fat or protein quench it!!!
Since American soils are critically deficient and depleted in minerals
it is no surprise that pica, cribbing and cravings dominate the American
scene. America is minerally deficient - dieters, athletes, vegetarians,
meat eaters, embryos, children, teenagers, young adults and seniors.
The snack food and fast food industries are aware of this relationship
between pica, cribbing, cravings, sugar binges and salt hunger and they
use it to their advantage by liberally salting or sweetening their products.
Unfortunately for us our bodies temporarily translates sugar and salt consumption
as a fulfillment of the craving for nutritional minerals (i.e.- if we lack
iron, salt or sugar will temporarily satisfy our pica behavior initiated
by the iron deficiency).
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Historically, the consumption of salt to satisfy a pica behavior
was of value because salt was not processed and did often times contain trace
minerals and Rare Earths. Today, salt consumption, although contrary to popular
belief, is not in and of itself harmful; it does present the problem of allowing
our bodies to think we are getting minerals (the equivalent of the "empty
calorie diets", i.e.- Processed food calories without vitamins).
The snack food and fast food industries are aware of this relationship
between pica, cribbing, cravings, sugar binges and salt hunger and they use
it to their advantage by liberally salting or sweetening their products. Unfortunately
for us our bodies temporarily translates sugar and salt consumption as a fulfillment
of the craving for nutritional minerals (i.e.- if we lack iron, salt or sugar
will temporarily satisfy our pica behavior initiated by the iron deficiency).
Historically, the consumption of salt to satisfy a pica behavior was of
value because salt was not processed and did often times contain trace minerals
and Rare Earths. Today, salt consumption, although contrary to popular belief,
is not in and of itself harmful; it does present the problem of allowing our
bodies to think we are getting minerals (the equivalent of the "empty calorie
diets", i.e.- Processed food calories without vitamins).
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