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:
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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.
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Cheese manufacturers have known about this for years and they try to exploit this characteristic of
their customers.

Keith