Choosing the Right Starches for a Balanced Diet: Tips from a Dietitian Nutritionist

2023-07-25 16:12:37 Starches are essential to our health to fill up on energy and to balance our diet. A dietitian nutritionist helps us identify which ones are to be preferred. Rice, pasta, bread… starches suffer from a very bad reputation, wrongly. Nathalie Majcher (1), dietitian nutritionist and creator of the blog DoctorGoodFood, nevertheless assures him: … Read more

How obese brains struggle to detect fat ingestion

2023-07-03 10:27:09 DECRYPTION – The mechanism identified by researchers could explain the inability of overweight people to regulate their daily food intake. We often hear that the intestine is our “second brain”. It is not a coincidence. When we eat, the detection of nutrients by the digestive system induces changes in brain activity, in particular … Read more

The Best Low-Sugar Fruits for a Balanced Diet: Expert Recommendations

2023-06-21 16:26:41 Fructose, a sugar present in fruits, should be consumed in moderation. Two dieticians list the fruits with the lowest sugar content. If the sugar contained in fruits is natural, it is nevertheless bad for our food balance when it is consumed in too large quantities. This substance called fructose can in particular cause … Read more

how to find the right balance

If you’re not diabetic, you don’t need to watch your blood sugar like milk on the stove. Instead, balance your diet. They took over Instagram. Small pellets positioned on the arm, blood glucose sensors continuously measure blood glucose levels and promise, according to influencers who promote it, to monitor one’s diet or, for athletes, to … Read more

Where and how to get help for anorexia and bulimic disorder

OUR ADVICES – When eating disorders become invasive, randomly knocking on the door of a therapist or looking for a solution on the internet are not good ideas. Who to contact in the event of a characterized pathology? The pathologies of poor eating – anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder – are essentially multifactorial, calling for … Read more

“Distressing that several sites, even pharmacies, present it as a product for dieting purposes”

On TikTok in particular, some Internet users praise Ozempic and film themselves injecting themselves with the pen with the active ingredient of this drug, prescribed for type 2 diabetics, and which would promote rapid weight loss without effort. Videos viewed tens of thousands of times and which have gone viral. Result: in pharmacies, a new … Read more

These fermented foods that boost the microbiota

Fermentation transforms vegetables, beverages and dairy products to the great benefit of our health. There are contraindications to their consumption. Sour milk, pickled cabbage: fermented foods have been an integral part of the human diet since ancient times. This is one of the oldest food processing and preservation techniques. From a nutritional point of view, … Read more

How to escape digestive discomfort

Watch out, fragile! To escape digestive discomfort, the gut microbiota must be pampered. Here’s how. For lunch, Marie swallows a sandwich in a hurry because she has files to return. She does not forget her prescribed antibiotic for a cold or her medicine for gastroesophageal reflux she’s been taking for months. On leaving the office, … Read more