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Same question, different scenario: A pregnant woman will often crave the foods that contain just the nutrients her body requires at the time. Has she figured o

Same question, different scenario: A pregnant woman will often crave the foods that contain just the nutrients her body requires at the time. Has she figured out exactly what her body needs and what foods contain it?

jml7c5 6y ago
AFAIK the idea that cravings represent desires for specific nutrients has been largely debunked. Do you know of any material that supports the theory?
- orange8 6y ago
  Debunked by whom and where. I'd be interested in getting your sources too. In terms of material supporting the theory, google "pregnant cravings nutrients" and you will get hundreds of results... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054961/ https://familyandconutrition.com/food_cravings_pregnancy/ https://familyandconutrition.com/food_cravings_pregnancy/ https://www.webmd.com/baby/features/pregnancy-food-cravings#1 https://www.webmd.com/baby/features/pregnancy-food-cravings#...
  - UShouldBWorking 6y ago
    Why are people trying to ruin the narrative that woman are mythical creatures with special inborn knowledge available only to them? Shesh!
nondeveloper 6y ago
Are you maybe thinking of pica? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
- lopmotr 6y ago
  Surely you'd have heard about it from friends or family if it was common for pregnant women to have cravings for nails and bottle caps and that their bodies need the nutrition from them?
- labawi 6y ago
  AFAIK, dirt and feces are rich in cobalamine (vitamine B₁₂), which is otherwise scarcely available in non-animal sources. Calling it a "disorder" and "largely non-nutritive" seems a bit broad, when it could be satisfying a particular need. Even though eating feces might not be a good idea and more serious examples do seem useless and damaging.
  - nondeveloper 6y ago
    I also thought it odd that the article (or perhaps broader academic community) characterizes these behaviors as necessarily disordered. There seems to be a logic to it.
labawi 6y ago
> Has she figured out .. I wouldn't dare call it "she", "knows", "exactly", in the strict sense, but the less-than-conscious parts of a human should have a pretty good though fuzzy experience of what foods are beneficial in which circumstances.

jml7c5 6y ago

AFAIK the idea that cravings represent desires for specific nutrients has been largely debunked. Do you know of any material that supports the theory?

orange8 6y ago
Debunked by whom and where. I'd be interested in getting your sources too. In terms of material supporting the theory, google "pregnant cravings nutrients" and you will get hundreds of results... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5054961/ https://familyandconutrition.com/food_cravings_pregnancy/ https://familyandconutrition.com/food_cravings_pregnancy/ https://www.webmd.com/baby/features/pregnancy-food-cravings#1 https://www.webmd.com/baby/features/pregnancy-food-cravings#...
- UShouldBWorking 6y ago
  Why are people trying to ruin the narrative that woman are mythical creatures with special inborn knowledge available only to them? Shesh!

nondeveloper 6y ago

Are you maybe thinking of pica? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)

lopmotr 6y ago
Surely you'd have heard about it from friends or family if it was common for pregnant women to have cravings for nails and bottle caps and that their bodies need the nutrition from them?
labawi 6y ago
AFAIK, dirt and feces are rich in cobalamine (vitamine B₁₂), which is otherwise scarcely available in non-animal sources. Calling it a "disorder" and "largely non-nutritive" seems a bit broad, when it could be satisfying a particular need. Even though eating feces might not be a good idea and more serious examples do seem useless and damaging.
- nondeveloper 6y ago
  I also thought it odd that the article (or perhaps broader academic community) characterizes these behaviors as necessarily disordered. There seems to be a logic to it.

labawi 6y ago

> Has she figured out .. I wouldn't dare call it "she", "knows", "exactly", in the strict sense, but the less-than-conscious parts of a human should have a pretty good though fuzzy experience of what foods are beneficial in which circumstances.