Your Sweet Tooth
Your Sweet Tooth
When my boyfriend returns from any overseaswow accounttrip, he always knows exactly what kind of souvenir I want. Forget matryoshka dolls or designer shoes—I want chocolate. To be more specific, I want real English Cadbury chocolate. The idea of women’s lovingchina wholesalesweets has become a cultural cliché reminiscent of an old Cathy comic strip, but I’ll confess to not being able to get enough of them. In my kitchen right now, you’ll find three boxes of Girl Scout cookies, brownies, caramel popcorn, and chocolatebuy ffxi gilcovered almonds. (The two-pound bar of chocolate is on my desk at work.) I’ve also been known to eat ice cream for dinner on occasion.
Most men, on the other hand, claim that they’d rather snack on a bag of potato chips than a pint of Ben & Jerry’s. We might think of iteve power levelingas a worn-out trope, but it turns out that the stereotype of women’s lovingnike sbcandy has some basis in real life, because studies have begun to show that having a sweet tooth really is a girl thing.
Rats aside, human females report havinggate valvecravings for sweets more often than men do. If those cravings have a biological basis, there are a few reasons why women would benefit from calorie-rich food. They need to maintain a certain percentage of body weight (about 17 percent) in order to sustain a pregnancy, so an innate preference for sweets would be an efficient way to pack on the poundsray ban sunglassesthat keep the menstrual cycle in action. It’s also possible that women’s elevated estrogen levels during the cycle are what cause the cravings. A few studies have shown a correlation between higher levels of estrogen in the body and people’s increased cravings for sweets, but the evidence is not always clear. Some women claim to desire sweets more during theircoogi jeansmonthly periods, while others report doing so in conjunction with premenstrual syndrome or at other times during the month. Since hormones fluctuate constantly, many researchers feel that there’s more at play than just estrogen.
Besides increasing fat reserves, consumption ofnike shoxcarbohydrates (in the form. of sugar) has one other major consequence: increased levels of serotonin in the brain. The human body needs carbohydrates to properly manufacture this neurotransmitter, which helpscheap jeansregulate sleep and mood. Women naturally have lower levels of serotonin in their brains than menusb flash memorydo, which could account for their desire to eat sweet, sugary foods, since eating carbs leads to feeling happier. This theory would also explain why so many “comfort foods” consist of starches, breads, candies, and sweets. Women also tend to suffer from depression and anxiety in greaterwholesale electronicsnumbers than men do, and these afflictions may lead them to self-medicate with food although it’s certainly easier (and healthier) to elevate serotonin levels naturally, via exercise or exposure to sunlight, than it is to eat a tub of Chubby Hubby.
Human beings naturally gravitate toward sweeter2gb flash memoryfoods, but our tastes are also shaped by our culture and upbringing. Studies of binge eaters have shown that much of what we crave as adults is cemented when we’re children: kids who grow up eating candy and sugar are much more likely to turn into adults who eat candy and sugar. Adults who crave foods besides sweets often report thatspy camerathey preferred those types of foods as children as well. Humans make emotional bonds with food, and many people try to re-create happy moments with the foods from their childhoods, whether they be cookies, macaroni and cheese, pizza, French onion dip, or Snickers bars.
Of course, not all women prefer sweet snacks, just as not all men prefer salty or meaty ones. When my boyfriend returned from Japan with an armful of Cadbury bars for me, he also brought a bag full of Kit Kats, Pocky, and caramels for himself. For anyonereplica Louis Vuitton handbagswith a sweet tooth, the challenge is to indulge without overeating and putting yourself at risk for obesity and other health problems. The downside to having a serious sweet tooth might be that I’m always fighting the battle of cookies versus carrots, but the definite upside is that it’s easy to buy me a birthday present by simply popping into an airport’s duty-free store.
When my boyfriend returns from any overseaswow accounttrip, he always knows exactly what kind of souvenir I want. Forget matryoshka dolls or designer shoes—I want chocolate. To be more specific, I want real English Cadbury chocolate. The idea of women’s lovingchina wholesalesweets has become a cultural cliché reminiscent of an old Cathy comic strip, but I’ll confess to not being able to get enough of them. In my kitchen right now, you’ll find three boxes of Girl Scout cookies, brownies, caramel popcorn, and chocolatebuy ffxi gilcovered almonds. (The two-pound bar of chocolate is on my desk at work.) I’ve also been known to eat ice cream for dinner on occasion.
Most men, on the other hand, claim that they’d rather snack on a bag of potato chips than a pint of Ben & Jerry’s. We might think of iteve power levelingas a worn-out trope, but it turns out that the stereotype of women’s lovingnike sbcandy has some basis in real life, because studies have begun to show that having a sweet tooth really is a girl thing.
Rats aside, human females report havinggate valvecravings for sweets more often than men do. If those cravings have a biological basis, there are a few reasons why women would benefit from calorie-rich food. They need to maintain a certain percentage of body weight (about 17 percent) in order to sustain a pregnancy, so an innate preference for sweets would be an efficient way to pack on the poundsray ban sunglassesthat keep the menstrual cycle in action. It’s also possible that women’s elevated estrogen levels during the cycle are what cause the cravings. A few studies have shown a correlation between higher levels of estrogen in the body and people’s increased cravings for sweets, but the evidence is not always clear. Some women claim to desire sweets more during theircoogi jeansmonthly periods, while others report doing so in conjunction with premenstrual syndrome or at other times during the month. Since hormones fluctuate constantly, many researchers feel that there’s more at play than just estrogen.
Besides increasing fat reserves, consumption ofnike shoxcarbohydrates (in the form. of sugar) has one other major consequence: increased levels of serotonin in the brain. The human body needs carbohydrates to properly manufacture this neurotransmitter, which helpscheap jeansregulate sleep and mood. Women naturally have lower levels of serotonin in their brains than menusb flash memorydo, which could account for their desire to eat sweet, sugary foods, since eating carbs leads to feeling happier. This theory would also explain why so many “comfort foods” consist of starches, breads, candies, and sweets. Women also tend to suffer from depression and anxiety in greaterwholesale electronicsnumbers than men do, and these afflictions may lead them to self-medicate with food although it’s certainly easier (and healthier) to elevate serotonin levels naturally, via exercise or exposure to sunlight, than it is to eat a tub of Chubby Hubby.
Human beings naturally gravitate toward sweeter2gb flash memoryfoods, but our tastes are also shaped by our culture and upbringing. Studies of binge eaters have shown that much of what we crave as adults is cemented when we’re children: kids who grow up eating candy and sugar are much more likely to turn into adults who eat candy and sugar. Adults who crave foods besides sweets often report thatspy camerathey preferred those types of foods as children as well. Humans make emotional bonds with food, and many people try to re-create happy moments with the foods from their childhoods, whether they be cookies, macaroni and cheese, pizza, French onion dip, or Snickers bars.
Of course, not all women prefer sweet snacks, just as not all men prefer salty or meaty ones. When my boyfriend returned from Japan with an armful of Cadbury bars for me, he also brought a bag full of Kit Kats, Pocky, and caramels for himself. For anyonereplica Louis Vuitton handbagswith a sweet tooth, the challenge is to indulge without overeating and putting yourself at risk for obesity and other health problems. The downside to having a serious sweet tooth might be that I’m always fighting the battle of cookies versus carrots, but the definite upside is that it’s easy to buy me a birthday present by simply popping into an airport’s duty-free store.
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