When you are on a diet, cravings are sure to strike. The three most common cravings are cravings for sugar, fat and salt. Sugar is considered by many diet experts to be an addiction as dangerous as nicotine or even heroin.

The plant is said to have a feel-good almost aphrodisiac quality, and I have to say, we felt good. But more significantly, we did not even think about food. Our brains really were telling us we were full. It was a magnificent de...