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Women and Dessert Crawings: Often you have seen that women love sweets, while men have less craving of desert. You will be surprised to know that there is a scientific reason behind this too. Hormonal changes, stress and changes in abdominal bacteria can change sugar craving. Women have hormonal changes during periods, which has a desire to eat more sweet. It is also difficult for women to control their cravings.
Everyone likes to eat sweets. Be it women or men, it is natural to get mouth watering by seeing sweets. Many research has shown that women have more craving for sweet food than men. It is not just a matter of taste, but behind it is also the body’s hormones, brain chemical processes and emotional factors.
According to the TOI report, women’s body changes hormones such as estrogen and progesterone levels during mental cycles, pregnancy and menopause. These hormones affect mood and appetite. When serotonin hormones are reduced in the body, sweet craving. Eating sweet can cure this hormone. So when the mood is bad, then women like to eat sweet. After eating sweets, their mood gets better.
Stress also increases women’s sugar cravings. During stress, gruelin hormone increases in the body which increases appetite. During this time leptin hormone is low, which prevents appetite. These changes are more in women, so they start eating more sweets under stress. Emotional status and social pressure also promotes this desire of women.
We have good bacteria in our stomach, which are called gut microbiomes. These bacteria also affect the desire to eat. Especially a bacterial hormone called astrobiom affects estrogen. During periods, these bacteria can increase, due to which women crave sweets. Eating more sweet causes these bacteria to increase, due to which cravings continue to happen.
Before the periods, the body of women needs more energy, because during this time the body prepares for pregnancy. During this time, women like to eat more calories and sweet, because it gives energy immediately. This is the reason that at this time women have more desire to eat sweets.
Men’s cravings are different from women. Men’s hormones remain more stable. Especially due to testosterone, most of the hormones of men are stable. Because of this, men have less cravings. Men prefer more salty or protein -rich food, while women want to eat more sweet.
Social and mental reasons also affect the desires to eat. Women eat more sweets for beauty, dieting and emotional comfort. Such pressure is less in men, so their cravings are not emotionally so complicated. Therefore, there is a difference in cravings.
Research says that men are able to control cravings in a better way. Due to the stability of the hormone and the difference in the reaction of the brain, men have more control over their appetite, while it is a bit difficult for women. In such a situation, women should understand their cravings and control them properly, so that health remains better.
