Alexandre Chapy, dietician and psychologist: “Sustainable diets must be diversified, without excluding food groups”

MADAME FIGARO.-

Each of the two diets he encounters involves the risk of significant deficiencies.

Sustainable diets must be relatively diversified, without excluding food groups, such as the Mediterranean diet, which remains the most affordable for our culture.

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What does the contemporary need to slip into a food straightjacket answer?

As the French sociologist Claude Fischler describes it very well, the Western world has shifted from a model where it was difficult to find sufficient food (until the Second World War) to a model of profusion, in which one is afraid of overeating and becoming intoxicated.

The increase in agri-food technology means losing direct contact with nature.

This worries us, as do the successive health scandals.

The consumer is looking for magic formulas that often hide a desire to return to nature, to the old, to the original source of our food.

The trend towards increasingly clear-cut nutritional discourse coincides with the collapse of stable political models at the turn of the 1980s. We are looking for framework and meaning.

Making a food decision can give you an identity, protect your health or the planet

Alexandre Chapy, dietitian nutritionist and psychologist

Are we touching the limits of diets?

A well-informed person who tests a diet, even a stupid one, exercises his individual freedom, without this involving a real problem.

Any diet becomes dangerous as soon as it induces a loss of freedom but also of flexibility, and the individual tries to respond to inner suffering through food.