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Probablemente también sientes lo mismo por alguna comida. Un ansia que supera todos los demás antojos. Alimentos cuyo retrato sensorial puede pintar en su cabeza una y otra vez mientras estás de pie en el vagón de metro de camino a casa.



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No todos los antojos son tan familiares. ¿Alguna vez has anhelado algo que había olvidado por completo, como el sabor de una rosquilla que ya no se consigue o un aliño de ensalada que probaste en una fiesta hace mucho tiempo?

Se dice que las mujeres embarazadas anhelan combinaciones de alimentos extremadamente improbables, desde helados y encurtidos hasta fresas y atún. Se sienten como mensajes importantes que envia el cuerpo.

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Linking cravings to nutrient deficiencies is not the case.

A common justification for chocolate cravings, for example, is that the body is low in magnesium, a mineral that chocolate can provide.

But many, many foods, including spinach, contain more magnesium than chocolate, which is the most commonly craved food in Western societies.

"Interestingly, people don't crave spinach," she observes.

Hormonal factor

There are many such rationalizations. But cravings are more closely linked to emotions and external cues that evoke memories.

Being sad, anxious, stressed, bored, or lonely is often the trigger for a craving, says Kemp.

Food as comfort doesn't exactly explain the precision of cravings, except for the fact that we often crave foods that we've had previous experiences with.

We also tend to desire things that we have only seen in a photo or that appear in our vicinity. Like when muffins appear at the office in the middle of the afternoon, it doesn't matter if you just had lunch.

It's not that biology isn't involved.

According to experts, sometimes it is better to succumb to cravings.

The fact that women tend to feel significantly more cravings in the days just before their periods, and during pregnancy, suggests there may be a hormonal component.

But Kemps can't say whether that's something that plays a nutritional role or just noise in the neurons.

And obviously, cravings are more universal than pregnancy or menstruation.

Regardless of their origins, cravings can be extraordinarily intrusive.

Experiments have shown that they make it more difficult to perform cognitive tasks, suggesting that they are hogging up a certain limited amount of mental bandwidth.

Visual cues

To understand the longing process and see how it could be interrupted, Kemps and his colleague Marika Tiggemann have studied exactly what is...<end_of_turn><eos>