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Don't feel guilty.

Broadcast for a month on television, on social networks and on the mangerbouger.fr site , this national campaign launched on Tuesday encourages the French to gradually change their habits, without giving up the pleasure of eating. "Improving your diet begins with small actions: eating pulses more often and replacing your usual starches with whole starchy foods, rich in fiber, are two simple and yet very positive measures for health", indicates Anne-Juliette Serry, manager of the food and physical activities unit at Public Health France. An example? "Are you more carbonara pasta?" Opt for wholemeal pasta, it's also quick to make and richer in fiber.

Another objective: to make the population aware that they must reduce their consumption of meat, cold meats, alcohol, sugary products and drinks and salty products. Clearly, all foods carrying a Nutriscore D and E . This scale of letters and colors, found on food packaging, is intended to help choose food products of better nutritional quality. Established in 2017, it is only optional. Still, it is not always easy to be virtuous when the shelves are filled with products that are too fatty, too salty, too sweet.

8 million obese people.

More than half (63%) of French people aged 18 to 54 swallow more than the 150 grams of cold cuts recommended at most per week; A third drink more than one glass per day of sugary drinks. Finally, 83% exceed the recommended intake of saturated fatty acids threshold.

Better health for pregnant women versus a handful of nuts and a few drops of olive oil with every meal? A study published on July 23, 2019 in the journal Plos Medicine looked at the effects of a Mediterranean diet on the health of pregnant women and their babies. This diet, already known for its beneficial effects on type 2 diabetes , is believed to reduce the risk of developing pregnancy diabetes by more than a third . Affecting 3 to 5% of pregnant women, the latter can have dramatic consequences if it is not taken care of (spontaneous miscarriages, risk of subsequent type 2 diabetes, etc.).

Researchers at Queen Mary University (Great Britain) recruited 1250 women who were overweight, obese or had high levels of lipids in the blood. From the 18th week of pregnancy, half benefited from nutritional monitoring in order to adopt a Mediterranean diet, rich in fiber and good fats (unsaturated fatty acids). The others received classic nutritional advice. At the end of their pregnancy, mothers in the first group had gained an average of 1.25 kg less than those in the second group. Above all, their risk of developing gestational diabetes had decreased by 35%: to put it another way, 17.6% of women in the “Mediterranean diet” group developed pregnancy diabetes against 24.9% of women who benefited from nutritional monitoring. classic.