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Mary Ann Castillo

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Mary Ann Castillo has over 50 years of experience eating and has no plans to stop.

Let's take a sweet trip down Memory Lane

Thursday, April 2, 2020 ~ Updated 8:32 PM

Have you or your loved ones been craving salty or sugary snacks lately? I sure have. When I'm stressed, my vice is soft drinks. Soda. "Coke" if you're a Southerner. It's easy to blame it on boredom, but did you know we have a physiological response to emotional stress? It includes terms like "hypothalamus," "adrenal glands," "cortisol" and "insulin," and it causes cravings. Our bodies recognize we are stressed before we do and automatically kick in to "help." Unfortunately, its solution is about as helpful as the time me and my brothers washed our parents' car with Ajax, but we meant well, and so do our bodies.

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