New book – out September 12 (in French) Dr. Reginald Allouche shows that the liver is a major player in losing weight. He proposes a method composed of typical days, ideas of menus depending on the season, recipes, a follow-up table, and an improved online version. Buy on Amazon Buy on Fnac.com See more on the Publisher’s website
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When the call of your sweet tooth gets too strong, turn to dark chocolate as it seems to have interesting side effects! Switzerland, world leader of chocolate eating with 12 kilograms per year per inhabitant, also holds comes first in terms of Nobel prize to population ratio, with 30 Nobel laureates for 10 million inhabitants, after Sweden (but the author…
Recent studies on rats have revealed a real addiction to refined sugars, with alterations in the reward circuit similar to those displayed by drug addicts (we refer to addiction in the medical sense of the word, as defined in the mental disorders diagnosis handbook DSM-IV-TR). Even more surprising: among the animals supplied with a choice between drinking sugared water and…
The intestine is the seven meters long part of the digestive tract between the stomach and the anus. Made of the small intestine and the large intestine, it serves to the digestion and the assimilation of the nutrients from food, then to the elimination of the useless waste material. But, far from being a simple sewage duct, our intestine constantly…
We store energy as fat within our adipocytes, the cells of the adipose tissue which stocks up and destocks it according to our daily activities. Imagine a round cell with a black nucleus and a body just as round but flexible, and able to expand or contract according to your storage needs. The adipose tissue, or rather the adipose organ,…
Type 2 diabetes appeared in the beginning of the 20th century, when sugar ceased to be a rare commodity to come and grace every kitchen table. Before that, the Old World relied on honey or beet sugar for sweetening. And, as the near lack of sweet recipes in the great culinary treaties of the Middles Ages shows, desserts as we…
Wine is the best beverage… and the worst! Despite its cardiovascular benefits, due to its richness in antioxidant tannins, red wine is nevertheless an alcoholic beverage – no need to evoke here the well-known hazards linked to alcohol abuse – and a big purveyor of carbohydrates. So, do drink sparingly (one glass per meal), and prefer high-quality tannic red wines.
