When the only thing you look at is in a radiant smile.It gives off sympathy and kindness for all its pores.With appearance and ways of authentic gentleman, and with help an interpret (although expressions in Spanish), he maintains a catching conversation that makes you forget the language barrier.
Beloved and hated in equal parts, the creator of the famous Dukan diet has written a book, "the six months that the world can change" (Books dome, 2017), to explain to future mothers the dangers involved for the fetus the fetusExcessive consumption of processed sugars.
-Is the food that is currently in Europe so harmful?Has the essence of the Mediterranean diet been lost?
-Yeah.There is a lot of talk about her, but the authentic Mediterranean diet, as was done 50 years ago, does not exist.The differences between food, for example, English and Italian, have been attenuated.Before the last great war there were huge differences, but today, not anymore.
-Not even in countries such as Italy, France, Spain or Greece, is that food preserved?
-You have preserved, yes, but with another way of presenting things, because if we study the feeding of these countries, of course they continue to drink oil and eat tomatoes, but there are fast food establishments, cookies with flour and sugar ...There are many things that have emerged and added to food and come from the industry, which makes foods that are not Mediterranean.70% of those we eat is industrial.
-Is sugar always added to processed foods?
-A almost all.For example, tomato sauce is not natural and sugar is incorporated.The more it incorporates, the more people like it and the more you buy it.In the mind we have a reward center that demands sugar and loves, it is like a drug.
-Is sugar addictive?
-Yes of course.The IMSER (National Institute of Health and Medical Research in France) conducted an experience with mice: after making them cocaine addicted for 15 days, he offered sugar in a small bottle.The rodents ended up preferring the sugary bottle to cocaine.In the US, the most obese country in the world, everything carries sugar.Even the pipinillos in vinegar ...
-The food produces immediate satisfaction but passes immediately ...
-Yes, but then he continues to eat.There is only one more pleasant feeling than food, which is orgasm, but lasts four seconds and one meal, two hours ...
-We are more than we owe?
-It is not that we eat more, it is that since 1970 we eat very badly.The industry manufactures products that are transformed and manufacturing only has one objective: create dependence on that food.Added sugars get these processed foods that are not good.
-We have ourselves in babies and pregnancy.He affirms in his book that now babies are larger than 40 years ago.
-The statistical states that in 1970 children weighed an average of three kilos, while in 2016, the average is three and a half.It is very serious because it is almost 20% more.And we must investigate that this weight gain.
-And is the mother's food for pregnancy?
-Principically yes.Before 1970 diabetes was a rare disease but now there are millions of diabetic and obese people in the world who will live much less than the rest of the population.It is a terrible epidemic.Overweight and diabetes are related and this link has been discovered only 10 years ago.The cause of this is the pancreas, which manufactures insulin.The action of insulin is to convert sugar into fat.It saves your life but makes you fat.When you eat like this for years, the pancreas gets tired and that is where diabetes occurs.
-Do manufactureinsulin the pancreas?
-No, but generates less than necessary.Today a human being who has overweight only has one remedy: follow a diet.There is no other solution.If fat is because they eat too many fats and, above all, too many sugars.To lose weight you have to reduce that intake.
-Reduce, but not suppress.
-If there are only 5 kilos of more, you have to reduce;If they have 20 kilos of more, you have to completely suppress the sugar.
-All sugars?Those of the fruit too?
-The dairy can be consumed, which also have a sugar, lactose.You can eat fiber from the oats that also has sugar, but slowly released.We can live without sugars or fat.Not all life, but a period of time.Actually losing 10 kilos are only 2 months (Dukan Method).Four days of attack and 8 weeks of protein and vegetables.A kilo per week.
-And following the regime that you postulate the patient you are well or tired?
-Depend of the person.If you have high blood pressure, you will feel very good.If it is normal, nothing changes and if you have it you can feel a bit tired, then you have to take salt.
-How do the pancreas develop in the fetus?
-The baby's pancreas is as follows: at 19 days, two small outbreaks appear on the intestine wall, first the dorsal and, three days later, the ventral.In the fifth week, the two outbreaks go in search of each other and, in the sixth, they melt.In this pancreas in formation, 99 % of the cells will evolve to end up exocrine and produce digestive enzymes, and 1 % of the remaining cells will evolve towards an endocrine function, of which half will specialize in insulin secretion.Thus, during the third month, this little pancreas will structure in sections and, throughout the fourth and fifth month, their cells hitherto undifferentiated, they will regroup in the form of islets called Langerhans and acquire, throughout theseSixty days, the ability to secrete insulin.And this is exactly what has happened in the last 200. 000 years.
-How does the mother's feeding affect the formation of the baby's pancreas?
-The baby's formation during pregnancy is an extremely precise symphony.Everything has been foreseen, except that the mother consumes both processed sugar.The pancreas of a healthy adult to tolerate such an aggressive diet, but not the pancreas in full development of the fetus.The "sugars" consumed by the mother are digested and broken down to reach the blood in the form of glucose.This glucose is a small molecule that easily crosses the placenta, moving from the mother's blood to the fetus.However, maternal insulin is too great to pass, which forces the fetus to produce its own insulin.If the mother consumes products rich in sugars, blood glucose rises.The fetal pancreas will be forced to secrete the insulin necessary to convert glucose into fat.This will lead to a weight gain proportional to the consumption of sugars, as well as to an increase in the baby's birth weight.The pancreas will have many cells, more than it should and this particularity will extend throughout life.And the baby will have a vulnerable pancreas that will manufacture more insulin, more fat and tire before.
-Are there so many diabetic children?
-On day there are children who at 7 are already diabetic.Before 1970 there were no children with this pathology.Type 2 diabetes was known as that of the old, of already mature adults.This increase in children in children comes from food during pregnancy, but mothers are not responsible because they didn't know ...
-Do you mean that there is not a single genetic feature in the transmission of diabetes?-Of course there is a part, of course, but that part has intensified.If there is that feature, and the mother abuses sugars, it will multiply the possibility that the child suffers from diabetes.Therefore, women with a history must take more precautions than the others.But only in the 4th and 5th months of gestation.They are crucial months.
-And the mother does not affect this diet?
Between 1970 and 2016 the number of women who have suffered gestational diabetes has increased, which is an indicator of how they feed.It also affects the baby, born fatter.Thus, the son is vulnerable, but the mother too.Although diabetes does not usually remain in mothers, there are 20% of cases in which it remains and will manifest in a second pregnancy.A woman who has had pregnancy diabetes must be much more guarded.
What do you intend with this book?
I want to put order in food intake.It is a painless process but has many consequences.With my advice, mothers are going to schedule a much healthier child and with fewer problems.When a woman asks me what she has to do so that her diet is the best for your baby, I say: "You have to eat like your grandmother, like when you were pregnant with your mother, that there were no industrial products."
