There has been some talk about "your body craves a certain mineral so you crave arugula". But I want to point out that when we have a food intolerance often our body craves that food we are most intolerant of. I can't prove this except that empirically through this and other mailgroups it seems to be true. People allergic to wheat _love_ bread, for instance, and when they start eating it they can't stop. Ditto with chocolate (I am definitely very allergic to chocolate and when I ate chocolate I used to eat a whole box of See's candy at a sitting...couldn't stop myself.) Food intolerances mask your body's reactions to them. It takes a while of "going clean" for you to become more sensitive to that food you are intolerant of, then you react with only a small amount that before would have been "no problem." I would say that when you are "clean" eating a paleo diet for a while, perhaps then cravings are more "natural" for foods you _really_ need. --Richard