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Study Suggest 'Food Monitors' Trigger Cravings

NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on new scientific findings that suggest food cravings are the result of internal biological food monitors. Recent research in animals shows that this system sets off an alarm when certain key nutrients are missing from a meal.

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