Follow-up – Nour Njeim:
The Egyptian nutrition expert, Dr. Waad Amin, indicated that the first step in a healthy diet is to treat what she called “emotional attachment” to food.
The expert said that the basis of the problem is that a person eats even when he does not feel hungry, stressing that it is healthy to eat only when he is actually hungry.
She also added that intermittent fasting can treat food addiction, pointing out that there will be a period in the day when a person decides not to eat.
She explained the nature of that fasting as 16 hours, including the number of hours of sleep, and that it is abstaining from food, while allowing drinking water, tea and coffee without sugar, which ultimately leads to forgetting food.
