1.Massaging makes you lose belly: true or false?
False, unfortunately!
No palpation-rolling deflates the buoys, no solid grip can erase love handles.
Flat stomach massages are empty promises.
At best, a gentle, circular massage around the umbilicus can help transit, and loosen the belly a little by facilitating the emission of gas… But this will not remove the slightest gram of abdominal fat.
To lose your belly, the recipe is (again and always) the same: balanced diet and sport, endurance and muscle building... Massage can be, in this case, a comfort after exercise.
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2. The "killer scream" strengthens the abs
This is a good core exercise!
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Became famous in 1977 thanks to a nanar committed by a fake Bruce Lee, the "killer cry", to be pronounced approximately
ki-aie!
, is not bogus!
It has been practiced in martial arts since the origins.
Psychologically, it aims to paralyze the adversary and allows to gather his strength by unifying the energies.
Physically, it starts from the navel and is projected by a sudden contraction of the abdominal and pelvic muscles.
It also allows the belly to shield itself against the blows of the adversary.
A good core exercise, the Killing Scream has everything it takes to sculpt abs, just like years of martial arts training.
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3.La turista or how to avoid it
If you are the victim of repeated diarrhea (at least three per day), vomiting, fever and abdominal pain, it is probably a tourista.
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When travelling, in high-risk regions:
■ Only drink bottled water that has been uncapped in front of you.
No ice cream or ice cubes.
No fresh milk, even fermented (lassi, yogurt…): the milk must be pasteurized.
■ No raw foods: only eat fruits that peel and do it yourself.
■ Avoid dishes left for hours at room temperature on hotel buffets.
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■ Ban raw or undercooked eggs.
■ Avoid (if possible) drinking from a cup when swimming in the river.
■ Disinfect the water for washing your teeth with tablets purchased from pharmacies before departure.
4.A big pregnancy belly predicts a big baby: true or false?
It is risky to say that the volume of the belly determines that of the baby.
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Fake.
Many factors affect the volume of pregnancy bellies.
On the mother's side: her height, her weight, her arch, the shape of her pelvis... On the baby's side: her position, the volume of amniotic fluid... Her weight also plays a role.
But it is one criterion among others, it is risky to conclude that the volume of the belly determines that of the baby.
And sometimes, quite standard "districts" can also harbor two babies.
Finally, remember that there is no link either between the shape of the belly, pointed or round, and the sex of the child.
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5. The cigarette helps transit
Nicotine facilitates transit.
But there are tricks to escape constipation.
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Well-known inconvenience to quitting smoking: morning constipation.
Nicotine facilitates transit by stimulating mobility in the colon and the production of mucus, so the intestines often need to learn to do without it too.
Good hydration, fiber on the menu and physical exercise, especially walking, help to get through this stage.
Weaning using patches, gum and vaping, which gradually deprives the body of nicotine, exposes future ex-smokers less to constipation.
So crush it!
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6. Antibacterial soaps harm the microbiota: true or false?
Triclosan, an agent used in soaps, would be an aggressor of the intestinal microbiota.
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True.
Triclosan, an agent used in soaps, deodorants and toothpastes for its antibacterial properties, in addition to being an endocrine disruptor, would also be an aggressor of the intestinal microbiota.
According to a Sino-American study published in 2018, triclosan attacks – and it seems logical – all microorganisms, including intestinal, especially those that have an anti-inflammatory action.
European regulations are beginning to limit its use, but toothpastes containing it can already be avoided.
On the other hand, wash your hands relentlessly, against viruses.
7.Sauerkraut is poorly digested
The sauerkraut itself is not a problem.
These are the foods around.
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Certainly not !
What slows down digestion are the fats that give the dish all their flavor, smoked bacon, Montbéliard and Strasbourg sausages, cervelas, roast pork... Sauerkraut itself is a much more digestible food than cabbage. from which it proceeds.
Fermentation makes it possible to evacuate the sulfur compounds and to break the fibers to make them more digestible.
It transforms the vegetable sugar into lactic acid which promotes the development of probiotic bacteria.
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8. Run the marathon thanks to the good bacteria
Could the Veillonella
bacterium
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In 2015, American researchers who had the (funny) idea of analyzing the stools of Boston marathon runners discovered an abundance of bacteria of the genus
Veillonella.
This microorganism converts lactic acid from muscle activity into fatty acid that can serve as muscle fuel.
Would Veillonella
then be a performance probiotic?
In mice, it works: doped with
Veillonella
rectally, they run a distance 13% longer than their “clean” counterparts.
Specialists are intrigued.
To be continued in humans.
9.Fake Sugar Makes Your Belly Flat: True or False?
Remember that replacing sugar with fake sugar does not make you lose weight.
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Fake.
First, because replacing sugar with fake sugar doesn't make you lose weight, neither your stomach, nor your thighs, or anything.
Then because sweeteners from the polyol family are poorly digestible, not metabolized and poorly absorbed by the small intestine.
They correspond to the "P" of the famous Fodmaps that we do not support!
They can cause bloating and flatulence which lead to loosening the belt rather than the other way around.
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10. Me, my dog, and our gut microbes
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Thirty billion friends!
No need to share Kiki's croquettes, the simple fact of living with our dog leads us to share part of our intestinal microbiota with him.
And it is all the easier since the microorganisms present in the intestines of dogs are much closer to those found in humans than to those of pigs or mice: 63% of canine microbes can thus be identified in depths of the human colon.
11. Chewing gum, enemy of the stomach
There is no risk in swallowing chewing gum.
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Yes and no.
Chewing produces saliva.
Its swallowing produces air and can create aerophagia which distends the walls of the stomach, then causes flatulence.
Polyols, sweeteners that sweeten most gums, can also promote diarrhea.
On the other hand, by stimulating the entire digestive system, chewing gum accelerates the resumption of transit after surgery under anesthesia.
Finally, there is no risk in swallowing chewing gum.
Broken down by digestive juices, it is rejected with other non-digestive waste.
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12.Hypopressive breathing?
This breathing raises the diaphragm as high as possible.
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Used in particular in the Pilates gym, hypopressive breathing consists of stopping breathing by bringing in the stomach.
Practiced during postures or simply while sitting cross-legged, it has the effect of raising the diaphragm as high as possible in the abdomen so that the organs are pulled towards the thorax, which creates a hollow under the navel.
The method is as follows: inspiration through the nose, then expiration through the mouth, blowing out deeply to empty the lungs before simulating an inspiration without taking in air.
The stomach hollows out sharply.
The alternation of exhalations and apneas tones the abdominal wall and the pelvis.
13. Viruses good for the belly
There are viruses that kill pathogenic bacteria.
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These are viruses that kill pathogenic bacteria: they are called bacteriophages.
Discovered more than 100 years ago, they had been neglected when the West discovered antibiotics.
In Eastern Europe, and particularly in Russia, bacteriophages treated infections for a time.
Today, researchers are again interested in it to remedy the phenomenon of bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
However, phage therapy requires the establishment of "phage banks" offering purified and well-identified samples, and this costs money.
However, phages are not patentable, so they are of no interest to laboratories.
14. Microbes in the family
There is a family bacterial fingerprint that shows who lives with whom.
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Upon delivery, the baby's sterile digestive tract is colonized by maternal bacteria.
At home then, all the inhabitants share the same micro-organisms, and particularly the intestinal bacteria.
In 2015, the Home Microbiome Project at the University of Chicago showed that there is a family bacterial imprint that makes it possible to know who lives with whom based on the analysis of microorganisms present on the skin, the feet, the hands, but also in the noses of each other.
15.Let's talk belly
Ventrebleu!
It hurts the guts all these legged bellies which, starving, have no ears.
Stomachs in their heels, they run belly down to fill their stomachs with the reason that everything that comes in makes a belly.
And too bad if their eyes larger than their bellies sometimes push them to take bladders for lanterns.
Many fight their flanks or don't bother, others have the livers.
But people who have heart in their stomachs don't put their spleens in court-bouillon: they have the stomach to want to make these comb-asses go all out.
The gossips, who have the guts laughing, then make up their minds to blow up their belly.