craving for sweets
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The gray in her hair caused her to look over 50, and her craving for sweets added several pounds to her weight, but as a child I did not see her flaws.
From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2019
They pointed out that many of the estimated 10 million Americans who suffer from diabetes find saccharin absolutely essential to fulfill their craving for sweets.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To satisfy the craving for sweets, Grunberg suggests, quitters should sprinkle everything, from meat to poultry to fruit, with a sugar substitute.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The craving for sweets which children show is, no doubt, the natural expression of a physiological need, but they should be taken with, and not between, meals.
From Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Knapp, Arthur William
Does not the child's instinctive craving for sweets indicate his need of them?
From The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses by Holt, L. Emmett