On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:27George & Sherry Van Rijn wrote: >Hi all, > >I can't figure out what's up with the sudden dairy cravings. I was never >like this before. Now I'm running into daily cravings for hard cheese, >cottage cheese, and especially ice cream and milkshakes. > >Any advice? This is quite a challenge and I'm not doing very well with it >the past couple days. > Stop buying and eating the stuff; the cravings will soon disappear, If you want to know about the physiology, do a google search on <"cheese" "morphine"> and you'll come up with items like this: ---------------------------------- Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee on Responsible Medicine, says cheese is addictive because it contains small amounts of morphine from cows' liver. ---------------------------------- Cheese manufacturers have known about this for years and they try to exploit this characteristic of their customers. Keith