This is the question we often ask ourselves when we rebalance our diet or want to monitor our figure: can I really eat bread at every meal? Does he who is accused of making people fat really deserve his bad reputation at the table? The clear opinion of a nutritionist.
THE bread is an institution in France and the baguette is king at the table, whether for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Whether it’s to make a toast with the best spread for breakfast, to accompany a salad or even a piece of cheese, many of us eat it every day and sometimes even with every meal. “If you eat a lot of it, bread, like everything else, can of course make you gain weight” explains, in fact, the nutritionist doctor Nina Cohen-Koubi at Madame Figarobut rest assured, this is not inevitable and you can continue to eat it in the morning, noon and evening without gaining weight.
As the nutritionist is keen to point out, it is not this eating habit that will make you gain weight alone, because bread is a starchy food and “our body needs it as much as vegetables and proteins to constitute a balanced plate”. A source of fiber, it is also a very useful filling food to enjoy at certain times of the day. It’s only when you eat too much of it that you run the risk of it making you gain weight by blowing up your daily quota of daily calories ingested, as the nutritionist points out. Rather than banishing it from your balanced diet, you should rather take care to do not consume it excessively.
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How to eat bread at every meal without gaining weight?
First thing to know according to the doctor, bread can be enjoyed for breakfast in the morning with butter to calm morning hunger, without it making you gain weight. “In the morning, for example, a menu consisting of two slices of bread buttered with fruit and yogurt can make a good breakfast”, she explains in fact. It is rather during the other 2 meals of the day that you must be very careful with your bread consumption, because during lunch and dinner, it is no longer the only starchy food eaten during the meal. You must therefore make a choice, according to your tastes, favoring either the bread which accompanies a non-starchy dish, or other starchy foods. “If you eat bread with your dish, you should avoid accompanying it with pasta, quinoa or rice, it’s one or the other” assures Dr. Nina Cohen-Koubi.
As you will have understood, it is entirely possible to eat bread at all meals, as long as you wisely measure your quantities of starchy foods at each food intake and prefer a piece of bread to a dose of rice or pasta. . Finally, remember that not all types of bread are equal when dieting. A nutritionist also revealed to us the best bread to eat so as not to gain weight. It’s a smart choice if you eat it with every meal!
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