Cravings! Cut comfort food cravings with a 10-minute walk!

And skip artificial sweeteners!

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Next time a desire for pizza, biscuits, mac ’n cheese and other high-fat, high-calorie “comfort” foods starts to surge, walk, hop on a bike or be active in other ways for 10 minutes—and they’ll no longer have a pull on you! ✤ It works! The journal Obesity reports that we usually gravitate toward comfort foods when we’re under stress because high-fat, high-calorie foods curb the output of the stress hormone cortisol. Fortunately, just 10 minutes of physical activity is as effective at easing stress as mac ’n cheese! Bonus: Exercising regularly helps keep stress from spiking in the future! Sugar substitutes actually increase the desire for junk food by tricking your brain into thinking you’ve just taken in a lot of calories. Then, when those calories don’t appear, it triggers cravings to correct the difference!