Healthy and balanced menus during the week to allow yourself small pleasures on weekends. This is in essence 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 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 eating” 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 who are young, have at least one child, have lower incomes and have less desire to cook are those who say they are most constrained in their daily food choices.
Guilt-free deviations on weekends
To sum up, we monitor our food more (and our line) and we organize our meals more according to our constraints (schedule, 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 cracks are allowed on weekends? Researchers at Cornell University in the United States answered yes in a study published last year. They concluded that weekend deviations are happily compensated by healthy meals during the week. Something to reassure the most greedy.
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