Can eggs help reduce cravings?
It depends what kind of craving you mean.
Eggs are more likely to help when the urge to eat is being driven by hunger than when it's a craving for one particular food. An egg-based breakfast can leave some people fuller for longer, so hunger may return later and with less urgency.
A craving for something specific (chocolate in the afternoon, crisps after a stressful call) is different. That kind of wanting can be driven by taste, habit, stress or reward rather than physical hunger, so a satisfying breakfast won't necessarily make it disappear.
Where eggs help most is in reducing the first kind: the general, physical hunger that makes any craving harder to resist because you're genuinely running low. A calmer, better-fed body has more capacity to notice a specific craving and decide what to do about it, rather than reaching for whatever's nearest because hunger has already taken the decision out of your hands. That's a real and useful effect. It's just not the same as eliminating cravings altogether, and it's worth not expecting it to be.
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