Diets and Nutrition

Detox, intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet: what risks, what health benefits?

Detox, intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet: what risks, what health benefits?

Monday February 12, Dr Gérald Kierzek, medical director of TipsForWomens, joins Ali Rebeihi’s set on Europe Inter like every first Monday of the month for a program in partnership with TipsForWomens. And this Monday: the real effects of different diets on our health.

Food is our primary medicine and as such, certain diets are sometimes attributed health benefits that are not always medically proven. To distinguish between wild allegations and validated virtues, Ali Rebeihi brings together different specialists on his set.

Virtues of therapeutic diets: don’t swallow just anything!

Popularized by many stars like Jennifer Aniston or Nicole Kidman, intermittent fasting is a practice used to lose weight which consists of having your last evening meal at 8 p.m., for example and not eating until noon the next day, i.e. fasting for 16 hours straight. Is it really effective? What about these possible virtues on the cardiovascular system, digestion, etc.?

Invariably after the holidays, diets and Detox products tout the benefits of a cure for detoxifying your liver, your body… Are these alleged properties based on validated studies? What is the real point of a detox treatment?

Does the ketogenic diet have a therapeutic benefit for cancer? What is the real impact of diet on prevention or support for cancer treatments? How can we distinguish validated recommendations from gurus who advocate fasting as a replacement for validated treatments?

As we can see, therapeutic diets raise many questions, which specialists from various backgrounds will answer in the program “Grand Bien vous fait” on Monday, February 12.

NO to diets, YES to WW!

A panel of experts from various backgrounds

On the Europe Inter set, we will find around Ali Rebeihi:

  • Boris Hansel endocrinologist-nutritionist at Bichât hospital in Paris.
  • Gérald Kierzek, emergency doctor at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and medical director of TipsForWomens.
  • Marie-Christine Boutron-Ruault, first-class research director at Inserm, internal physician and hepato-gastroenterologist
  • Bernard Srour, Pharmacist by training, Doctor in public health and epidemiology. He is the coordinator of the National Cancer Food Network.

Don’t miss the show to find out more.

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I pass by being that person liable to duty, but who cannot resist the flights of imagination. I have always loved the legends, the myths and the stories of the old and distant times with my whole being. In high school I fell in love with the history of art and I made it the object of my university studies. Once I graduated, I dusted off an old flame: that of children's literature. I rediscovered the beauty and importance of illustrated books and books, where, to a quality text, images are added that give strength and enrich what is narrated with meaning. It can be said that illustrators often make real works of art! It was then that I decided to follow this passion of mine both as a volunteer, entering the ranks of readers born to read, and in my work as a librarian. I am a greedy devoured of illustrated books (I have an absolute weakness for the stories that have bears or wolves as protagonists!), I love simple stories that know how to strike and surprise. I hate pigeon-holed books in a specific age group and readers in a certain category of readings. I think everyone is different and deserves to choose (and be chosen by the books) without constraints, in complete freedom! [email protected]