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Originally Posted by azdesertrn  I think many people are deficient in trace minerals- and when we crave salt often we are actually craving the minerals that used to be found with salt. Our bodies haven't caught on to the fact that most salt is refined now.
But, if you've been using real unrefined salt to taste for awhile perhaps that's not the case for you.
Do you have other strong cravings?
And have you actually eaten the junky style nachos to see if they actually taste good?- sometimes I crave something but its more of a memory and the actual item is not as I remembered. I was recently craving Dunkin donuts so I got one- I ended up throwing it away after a few bites and the craving was gone. It was not what I remembered from childhood.
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I have only been using unrefined salt for a couple months, maybe it hasn't had a chance to have an effect yet? Also, I get normal salt in my butter (the only unsalted available is not cultured or organic) so I haven't switched over entirely.
Mostly I crave salty, fatty and moist foods, almost never sweets. Whole milk feta cheese aged in brine is a good example - pretty much the creamiest saltiest thing around. I don't usually crave the normal fatty salty culprits like chips or fries. And in fact I only crave corn chips in combination with the cheese dip. I generally indulge my fatty salty cravings without guilt if it's real food and not some processed garbage, but this is obviously different.
And yes, I have eaten the junky nachos lately. A month or so ago I was eating them like once a week
Lately I have been restraining myself because they're just so nasty. I do know what you mean about junk food not really tasting good though - I get that with almost every junk food except nachos
I was raised mostly junk food free until I was a teenager and could acquire it myself, so this is not one of those emotionally charged childhood cravings. And actually I hated all cheese, including fake cheese, until my teens, after which I haven't been able to get enough of it.
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Originally Posted by TanyaLopez I don't know if either of these would apply to you, but when my body has been seriously depleted and stressed, I've had huge fat cravings, and my adrenals are really worn down, so I also have serious salt cravings. The adrenal - salt thing is for the sodium, strangely enough, my body's not holding onto sodium well, so I need to consume more just to have a normal functioning amount.
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That is very interesting. I recently started taking a multivitamin (including some minerals) and have felt much better. Though when I don't take it for a few days I start to feel crappy again. Which would indicate some kind of deficiency, right? Or my body not building up stores of some vitamin/mineral? Absorption problems? Also, a morning coffee seems to do wonders for me - perhaps due to my adrenals being run down? Blah, I suppose the coffee isn't helping in that case.
And not corn-tortilla-and-real-cheese nachos but industrial-corn-chips-and-fluorescent-orange-cheese-dip nachos. Consistently. For months. I'm guessing it doesn't mean you're deficient in yellow food coloring 
