Healthy and balanced menus during the week to allow yourself little pleasures at the weekend. This is essentially the way we design and organize our diet, according to a study published in the scientific journal International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, and relayed by Santé Log.
The researchers shed light on the determination of food choices on the basis of the nutritional criteria given by some 53,025 participants in the NutriNet Santé survey. This research program intended to better understand the relationship between Nutrition and Health provides information here on the choice of foods and meals through five dimensions: healthy eating, pleasure, constraints, specific diets and organization.
Verdict: the “healthy diet” factor is considered the number 1 criterion during the week and also on weekends. As for the “pleasure” factor, it exceeds the “constraint” factor on weekends. Women, young, with at least one child, with lower incomes and having less desire to cook are those who say they are the most constrained in their daily food choices.
Guilt-free spreads on weekends
To sum up, we watch our diet more (and our line) and we organize our meals more according to our constraints (timetable, income for example) during the week. The weekend, on the other hand, boils down more to a fine balancing act between food pleasure and balanced diet.
Does this mean that cracking is allowed on weekends? Researchers at Cornell University in the United States answered in the affirmative in a study published last year. They concluded that weekend gaps are happily compensated by healthy meals during the week. Something to reassure the greediest.
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