When you’re craving a certain food, your body may be trying to tell you something

Pamela Kelle

Do you find yourself craving salty chips or crackers?

It’s possible what your body is really needing is chloride or silicon and what you should eat instead of the unhealthy potato chips are some nuts, cashews, goat milk or fatty fish.

The website stepintomygreenworld.com, with information from Coaching & Weight Management, another website in the U.K., has put together a chart listing some unhealthy food cravings matched with what your body is saying it needs through those yearnings. It also provides a corresponding list of healthy substitutes.

Chattanoogan Pamela Kelle, a registered dietitian and licensed nutrition therapist, says there is definitely some truth to the logic behind such charts.

“The whole idea behind the intuitive health movement is to pay attention to what our bodies are telling us,” she says.