Food Cravings In Pregnancy

Pregnancy Over 40, Do Food Cravings Indicate Deficiencies?

Contrary to what you hear in the popular media, I've never heard of anyone craving pickles and ice cream when pregnant (well... maybe the ice cream).
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Personally I couldn't eat enough oranges, other than that, just about anything edible looked great to me when I was pregnant. I was constantly famished and when you're really hungry, all of a sudden all sorts of foods become your favorites (aside from a few pungent foods that make you gag). Anyway, click on the link below to read more about how to deal with food cravings:

 What do Food Cravings Mean?
Nutritionists and healthcare practitioners believe that there may be a connection between cravings and certain deficiencies in the body. Sometimes, though, this connection is unexplained, because the craved food cannot provide the deficient vitamin or mineral.

• Ice craving seems to indicate iron deficiency, even though this item does not contain iron
• Chocolate craving is supposedly connected to deficiency of vitamins from the B complex
• Red meat indicates a lack of proteins in the pregnancy diet
• Peach craving is related to beta carotene deficiency

Cravings disappear when taking flax oil, but this is most common in women who need more essential fatty acids. 
from: 3fatchicks.com