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Turning Junk Food in Healthy Meals [Video]

The Real Junk Food Project turns food waste into meals. The group’s founder, Adam Smith, tells AJ+ how he’s feeding the less fortunate using food collected from supermarket dumpsters. From video journalist Silvia Boarini in the United Kingdom.

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Chemistry of a Craving and How to Curb it [Infographic]

Chemistry of a Craving and How to Curb it [Infographic] | ecogreenloveby Health Perch

Most of us have fallen victim to an unyielding urge for a candy bar, a bag of chips, or a chocolate chip cookie. Cravings have the ability to make us lose control, abandon healthy habits, and give in to an immediate desire to satisfy what feels like a primal need. So what is a craving and what makes us willing to drive a few miles out of our way just to get our hands on a double chocolate milkshake or a greasy grilled cheese sandwich.

Cravings were once thought to be identifiers of nutritional deficiencies. Now researchers believe cravings are influenced by three factors: diet, memory, and emotion.

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