Women's Fitness

CRUSH YOUR CRAVINGS!

CRISPS

Why you crave them: Feeling stressed? Curiously, raised anxiety levels can make you crave salty foods such as crisps. ‘High levels of cortisol [a stress hormone] reduce production of a hormone called aldosterone which helps your body hold onto salt,’ explains nutritional therapist Shona Wilkinson. ‘This leads to salt cravings.’

Keep stress levels in check by eating a healthy diet, packed with fresh fruit and veg, getting enough sleep and doing a couple of low-intensity workouts a week,

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