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Investigation into these high-risk diets

2024-03-13T06:23:42.096Z

Highlights: Too restrictive or too exclusive, they are not only ineffective in the long term, they can also be dangerous. Review of those which should be avoided. And a salutary reminder of what really works. “The imagination of their promoters is endless. These regimes are renewed indefinitely, and they are constantly denounced. Most are offered to lose weight as the market is juicy. And before the guinea pigs have discovered the pot of roses, word of mouth has already worked,” says nutritionist Jean-Michel Lecerf.


Too restrictive or too exclusive, they are not only ineffective in the long term, they can also be dangerous. Review of those which should be avoided. And a salutary reminder of what really works.


“Astro” diet: eat according to your zodiac sign.

“Full Moon”: lose weight with the evening star.

“Colors”: gorge yourself on food, yes, but let it be all green one day, then all red… Welcome to the world of the most eccentric diets, widely disseminated and promoted on the internet and in certain destination media. of all those ready to believe any salad, as long as it makes you lose weight.

“The imagination of their promoters is endless.

These regimes are renewed indefinitely, and they are constantly denounced.

Most are offered to lose weight as the market is juicy.

And before the guinea pigs have discovered the pot of roses, word of mouth has already worked,”

notes nutritionist Jean-Michel Lecerf, head of department and associate professor at the Pasteur Institute in Lille.

In his book

40 misconceptions about diets,

published this fall by Éditions Quae*, the doctor, with more than thirty years…

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Source: lefigaro

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