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If You're Craving a Certain Food, You're Low in a Nutrient
Would that this were true! Ice cream and Bugles for all! Unfortunately, we humans can't discern the presence of individual nutrients in foods. A craving for red meat doesn't mean you have an iron deficiency, it probably means you just... want a steak. (Bizarrely, a compulsive consumption of ice cubes, called pagophagia, might indicate anemia... or that you're one of those annoying ice chewers.) less