As someone with a really high metabolism, I practically eat anything I want to and eat a lot through the day. I try and stay on the heathier side but as a college student it can get hard when unhealthy foods are cheaper. I really love salty snacks and sour candy and those are usually my go to choices when making trips to the C store. I always have a couple of bags of chips in the pantry as well as some sour skittles or other sour candy.
I find it really interesting that our gut microbiome is inherited from our parents. I don’t really think that my cravings are the same as my parents though. They both love sweets and I don’t as much as they do. I am curious to know why I don’t crave the same foods as them if biologically we are supposed to be tied together in our cravings and environmentally being around them for so much of my life that I didn’t adopt their cravings either. This leads me to believe that what I eat and crave wont affect what my children crave either.
However, I do think that alcohol consumption is genetic and depending on the parent’s disposition to alcohol can influence the child’s likelihood of consuming alcohol. According to the Addiction Center, there are genes that are directly linked to alcohol abuse. So if your parent has these genes then you are also likely to be predisposed to alcohol abuse as well which is frightening.
“Genetics of Alcoholism: Hereditary Factors of Alcohol Use - Addiction Center.” AddictionCenter, www.addictioncenter.com/alcohol/genetics-of-alcoholism/.