Why doctor poses as a defender of the snack… Which will please a lot of people who at work will not have time to eat something else.
The Anglo-Saxons like to dictate their behavior to the whole world, and when it comes to nutrition, just look: The food policy pursued in the United States for more than fifty years, has led the majority of the inhabitants of this country to a deplorable state of health. Let’s not even talk about Sandwich which is an English word but rather “snack”.
Its main qualities.
First of all, it’s a mini meal, so an excellent way to fight against snacking, which we know is the main fattening factor …
Because we eat too much, when we nibble, because we also eat in a disorderly way. Our body is an exceptional machine which has been able to develop almost perfect means of control. Thus the stomach filling signal takes 20 minutes to reach the brain, which argues for fairly long meals and which includes inputs that are not too rich in calories. This gives us time to warn our brain that we are eating and that it is useless to prolong the hunger signal.
We rarely nibble on vegetables, which gives the opportunity to wring the neck of the public enemy of our arteries: the peanut. A handful of this snack star is the equivalent of a good tablespoon of oil …
The chips…
It is not better… and yet, it is one of the mistakes to accompany the snack! A crisps provide almost as many calories as a whole boiled potato. Can you imagine eating a potato salad bowl as an appetizer?
The bread
Bread is an excellent food even if it is not wholemeal bread. But it’s still a sugar; admittedly slow – have your children experience chewing a piece of bread for a whole minute, to experience the taste of sugar revealed by the enzymes in our saliva.
To avoid being tempted to overeat, chew slowly! Look around: people who eat slowly are almost always thin!
The composition of the ideal snack
A good toast of common sense!
To lose the pounds that our body can no longer support, we must eat a little less and above all better, that is to say balanced. And there, the traditional food obtains a rather good note. This tradition is written in our genes.
So the content of the ideal snack is 50% sweet foods such as bread, vegetables and fruits, a quarter of protein, ie fish, eggs and meats. A quarter of fatty product knowing that the fats are hidden everywhere, especially in meats and preparations in sauce.
Eat better, eat less and especially at the times scheduled for that … The Anglo-Saxons say that we eat too late in our country … We could oppose them to the Spaniards who are doing rather better than them. However, the tradition of eating very late and having a nap theoretically goes wrong with the canons of dietetics.
No, the right formula is always a matter of common sense.
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