#Lemoncoffee, #lemonandcoffee, #lemonandcoffeechallenge… On social networks, many people wrongly recommend mixing coffee and lemon to lose weight quickly.
- According to the WHO classification, we speak of overweight when the BMI is greater than 25 and obese when it exceeds 30.
- Today, 17% of French people are obese (including 6% of children aged 8 to 17).
On social networks, false good ideas for weight loss abound. The latest: drink coffee with lemon.
‘No scientific basis’
Just like the lemon, “coffee, whether hot or cold, has never made you lose weight”, reminds Professor Pierre Dechelotte to our colleagues at AFP. “There is absolutely no scientific basis to say that there would be any significant weight loss benefit to mixing lemon and coffee,” also confirms for AFP Cécile Bétry, doctor and researcher in nutrition. “If a normal diet is replaced by this mixture, this induces caloric restriction which will in fact be responsible for weight loss”, but potentially generating a “yo-yo effect”, adds Béatrice Dubern, pediatrician-nutritionist.
One in two French people are overweight
Because it generates many pathologies, medically established overweight is potentially bad for your health. Fighting against it is therefore a good thing, but not just anyhow: a global and long-term food rebalancing remains the only way forward in this matter.
In 2020, nearly one in two French people (47.3%) was overweight and/or obese, according to figures from a new Odoxa survey for The League Against Obesity. And it is obesity that is progressing the most – it has doubled since 1997.
