There is no such person who would not wonder why you want sweets, especially during hard work or an exhausting session. There are several reasons, and it is absolutely impossible to clearly distinguish between psychological and physiological reasons, they are directly interconnected.
So why do you want sweets? Let us first consider the psychological reasons for this.
phenomena. The roots of this lie in childhood.
Everyone knows that in order to reassure a crying child, he needs to be given candy or something sweet. We transfer this mechanism into adulthood and are already starting to reassure ourselves with buns, bars and cookies.
Also, a suddenly awakened passion for sweets indicates emotional hunger, lack of love, care, attention and warm human feelings. Quite often it happens that a girl, experiencing personal drama, empties a box of chocolates at once or dies three chocolates. Subconsciously, in this way, a person compensates for the lack of positive emotions without thinking why you want sweets.
There is an opinion that for the sake of losing weight, sweets should be excluded from the diet. This opinion, although partially true, the main source of carbohydrates is removed from the diet, has a serious drawback. The forbidden fruit is sweet, and on this basis a losing weight constantly wants sweets.
In addition, social and cultural norms determine our attitude to sweets. In Russian, the word "sweet" is used as a synonym for blissful, happy, unearthly words. A variety of sweets that are customary to bring when going on a visit, to give as gifts have become an indispensable way to establish a good relationship.
From a physiological point of view, however, the question of why you want sweets is somewhat more complicated. And all because our body sometimes begins to blackmail us. As in what situations, we will understand below.
Strictly speaking, the need for sweets appears when the blood sugar level drops below normal. As you know, the main product of any sweet dish is sugar. which refers to carbohydrates. The task of carbohydrates is to supply energy to the body. All carbohydrates are conditionally divided into 2 groups: simple and complex. Complex carbohydrates are found in long chains of glucose, in foods such as pasta, rice, oats, fruits and vegetables. Simple carbohydrates can be found in their natural form in milk and fruit, as well as in artificially produced sugar. All carbohydrates ultimately turn into glucose, but the difference between simple and complex is the rate of conversion.
However, all this does not answer the question of why you want sweets. The fact is that glucose is nutrition for the brain. Therefore, during increased mental stress, for example, during a session and emergency work at work, the need for glucose increases. Therefore, the body goes to some blackmail. The brain is just too lazy to wait until the complex chains of carbohydrates break down and it receives the desired glucose. It’s much easier to eat chocolate and make up for the lack of glucose in minutes.
What to do if you want sweets? First of all, to determine whether you really need it, or whether it is simply a matter of psychological moments. The most important advice in this case will be to remember that in everything you need to respect a sense of proportion. One candy has not hurt anyone, especially during hard work.