Wacky diets, there are many. Lemon diet, grapefruit diet… Often worn by a personality, or supported by a press campaign (or even both), they make an impression because they seem original. Fine, but are they effective and innocent for all that?
As a first example, let’s take the “small pots of yogurt” diet recommended by Jennifer Aniston. Why did he make the “buzz”, as they say? Because it combines simple foods and shifted to a star glamour.
From a nutritional point of view, it is only liquid food in very small portions. Neither dangerous nor conclusive, it will only be followed by a few people. We talk about it more than we eat it.
The legendary lemon diet
More amusing is the starring of the lemon and the famous lemon diet. How many people force themselves every morning to swallow, without necessarily appreciating it, a warm or hot lemon juice?
If they were told that it was good for the body (why not), many now project much broader virtues into this daily gesture: the lemon would help burn the fattherefore to the loss of kilos, etc.
All this because acidic foods take on, in the imagination of the population, the habit of fat burners and because indulging in a food rite as soon as you get up strikes the spirit, sanctifies the gesture and allows the individual to be conditioned. The lemon diet has entered the collective imagination.
However, if the lemon has a facilitating effect on digestion and increases the secretions of the digestive system, without associated diet it will not make you never lose weight ! There are plenty of such examples.
These include diets that offer to eat raw sardines in the morning. The one who advocated, in the United States in the 1950s, chewing as many times as you had years (a little difficult at 70). Those who order to eat one food before anotherunless it is later.
Anyone who advocates the reduction of plate size, a real phenomenon by the way: our plate has gone from 16 to 21 cm in diameter in a few years. We have the right each year to the novelty of the moment. Can not wait for next year ?
Cabbage soup was me!
Who has never heard of this so-called miracle recipe? Who hasn’t had a friend who has extolled the virtues of a one-week diet where all meals are replaced by the consumption of the now legendary cabbage soup, which would purify the body, make you lose weight, etc. ?
Nobody. However, where does it come from?
The legend widely peddled on sites where word of mouth claims that Marlene Dietrich would be at the origin of this strange diet for having invented and practiced it herself. Mix a star to a slimming soup, how the followers of the least magic recipe couldn’t they crack?
The truth is more prosaic and the origin of the recipe much more recent. I even think, and apologize for it, to be (in spite of myself) at the origin of this revisited soup. which was seen taken up, distortedpeddled, thus diverted from its initial meaning to metamorphose into a miracle beverage…
Let us judge.
One day, the editor of the magazine Current wife asks me to compose an original diet in which a different soup should be eaten every evening.
For editorial purposes, we decide to highlight in the article one of these soups, the cabbage soup. In our mind, it is obvious that this soup, although put forward, is the appetizers a complete diet meal and not the entire meal itself.
Why cabbage? Because at the time I was caring for a patient who starred in the famous movie Cabbage soup and may it amuse me to do justice to this then despised vegetable.
Then… the soup passed us by.
Many readers have taken first degree this recipe, isolating it from the rest of the proposed meal (much like the lemon diet), spoke of its effects, and word of mouth operated. A magical thought was born, despite U.S.
So much so that even today, many people continue to follow this diet, which never ceases to amaze me, ignoring how much it takes pair it with a balanced meal !
Because, I insist, the readers did not understand, perhaps we were not, the magazine and myself, quite clear, that this soupe constituted part of the meal, not the whole meal.
Worse, the technique has gone beyond our borders and is now practiced in the whole world. Several manufacturers have rushed into the breach by offering cabbage soups, which are often nothing more than vegetable soups made with a cruciferous vegetable, as I could have offered the same soup with broccoli or spinach…
Be that as it may, I have to repeat what I keep saying: this applied regime taken out of context is totally imbalanceextremely restrictive. Even if it has the advantage of containing a lot of vitamins and minerals, I do not recommend it in any way.
Too low in protein, as in any unbalanced method, we will inevitably see the appearance of a weight gain upon resuming a normal diet.
As with the lemon diet, you have to integrate this into an overall diet and not believe that this simple change will make you lose weight. If however it helps to change your eating behavior, then why not, but always as part of a balanced diet.
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