{"id":8024,"date":"2017-08-22T14:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T21:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeandhealth.wordifysites.com\/?p=7617"},"modified":"2021-09-29T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:04:48","slug":"5-ways-to-retrain-your-tastebuds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/lifestyle\/5-ways-to-retrain-your-tastebuds\/148024.html","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways To Retrain Your Tastebuds"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. \u00a0Try, Try again<\/strong>
\nOur taste buds change over time, Lynn Rossy, Ph.D., a health psychologist and author of\u00a0The Mindfulness-Based Eating Solution<\/i>, says. The things you despised before may be no big deal now. Just because you couldn\u2019t tolerate asparagus as a five-year-old doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t appreciate it as an adult. Research shows that a child may need 10 to 15 exposures to a new food before they like it. If you never gave a food that many chances when you were young, it\u2019s time to give it multiple tries as an adult. Changing up the way you prepare food can offer new appeal, as well.<\/p>\n

2. \u00a0Create your cravings<\/strong>
\nWe often think that we eat what we crave. But, really, we crave what we eat. Here\u2019s how it works: whatever you eat in large quantities, your body craves. If you eat donuts every day, you\u2019re training your body to want and expect donuts. You can use this cycle for good: if you start eating fresh salads every day, your body will start craving them. Really! Eat healthy food long enough, and pretty soon, you\u2019ll start wondering why you thought those nutritious foods were so detestable in the first place.<\/p>\n

3. \u00a0Use the sandwich technique<\/strong>
\nSusan Roberts, Ph.D., author of The Instinct Diet, says she routinely helps people move away from fatty, salty, unhealthy foods by using the \u201csandwich technique.\u201d For example, she helped her \u201cchocoholic\u201d patient, Wendy, lose weight and beat her cravings. In fact, slimmed-down Wendy says she \u201cfeels nauseous\u201d now when she eats chocolate, and she craves salads instead. So how does it work? Roberts explains: After two weeks of completely going without a favorite fatty food, her patients are allowed 100 calories-worth of their guilty-pleasure food. But there\u2019s a catch: they must eat it in the middle of a meal. This sandwich technique doesn\u2019t leave the impression of how good the chocolate tasted to a really hungry person (at the beginning of the meal) or allow a person to associate being satiated and happy with the chocolate as dessert. Thus, the trick helps break the power of cravings.<\/p>\n

4. \u00a0Reduce the old, increase the new<\/strong>
\n\u201cGradually reduce junk food so you don\u2019t miss it, and add new, healthy foods to your repertoire. Processed food doesn\u2019t taste natural and really isn\u2019t that appealing. Over time, you will gradually weed out those food items that no longer appeal,\u201d Rossy says. She tells about a student who tried this method. Several months after starting the experiment, the student got her favorite hamburger and French fries at a drive-thru. She took one or two bites and then threw it away\u2014she had totally lost her taste for it.<\/p>\n

5 \u00a0Give it time<\/strong>
\nYour tastes and cravings won\u2019t change overnight, but they can change faster than you might expect. \u201cIn about a month your taste buds will start to recalibrate themselves,\u201d says Mike Dow, a psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller The Brain Fog Fix.\u00a0\u201cAs you wean yourself off artificial sweeteners, added sugar, and salt, you will also start to appreciate the subtle and robust flavors of herbs, the savory flavor of healthy fats like olive oil, and the delicious, natural taste of vegetables.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michele Deppe is a freelance writer in Seattle, Washington, who is currently retraining her taste buds to give up sugary tea.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Reprinted with permission from Vibrant Life Magazine.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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