Eating carbs may make you crave even more carbs

Not news to me!

http://www.today.com/health/eating-carbs-may-make-you-crave-even-more-carbs-6C10484514

June 30, 2013

We know that eating highly-processed carb-heavy foods is not great for us. But we tend to gobble up the food and move on with our lives, telling ourselves we’ll eat healthier at the next meal.

But evidence is building that, at least for some of us, our brains don’t quite work that way.

A small study published this week shows that hours after we eat a highly-processed meal with lots of carbohydrates – think white bread, or potato chips – we start to crave more of these junk foods.

“Highly processed carbohydrates might program us to crave food in general,” says David Ludwig, lead author of the paper published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. “And fast-acting carbohydrates in particular might be setting up these cycles of high blood sugar followed by low blood sugar, food cravings -- and then overeating.”

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