Discussions about the benefits or faults of foods are always tinged with misconceptions: So let’s cringe at the top of the class: fruits that convey a justified image of the healthiest foods on the market. It is however wanting to ignore that they are full of sugar, and that if you do not want to hang too much weight, you must limit its consumption. Vegetables have these same properties without the drawbacks. However, they do not benefit from the same coast of love; one of the objectives could be to take them out of the thankless role of “accompaniment” in the meal. A little culinary imagination is enough, but even if it is a good reason for discussion, we leave the register of the doctor
Another popular food category but with a bad boy reputation: bread. An almost perfect food that the whole world envies. However, in the sixties bread experienced a sharp drop in consumption – firstly because of the medical profession, which unfairly blamed it on the growing population. And, it must be said, because of excessive industrialization and poorly managed by some bakers.
Today, bread is gradually regaining a place it should never have lost at the French table. It perfectly meets the main criteria of diet: rebalance the intake of slow sugars, often insufficient in our diet and especially by providing the famous dietary fibers of which our food is very poor. Fiber, the guarantee of a successful diet from the beginning… until the end!
Finally, there is the fat! The taste properties of most preparations most often involve the use of fats, lipids as they are scientifically called. Then, these lipids in our brain, are the food of neurons, these nerve cells which ensure the transmission of electrical and chemical information between our cells. We think with fat, so our brain is our richest organ in fat. A brain that also loves sugars, those others banned from diets. A brain requires energy, day and night. At rest, for example, it uses – while it only accounts for 2% of our body weight, 20% of the food energy consumed and 20% of the oxygen breathed. An even more impressive figure – 60% – in infants.
Here are some arguments of medical demagogy to spoil meals less.
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