The nutritionist reveals a method that he says is essential for maintaining control between meals.
Jean-Michel Cohen recently shared on Instagram nutritional advice intended to calm the cravings that arise at the worst time. He points to a food combination playing a key role in blood sugar stability.
Indeed, the doctor recently published a short video called “the real gesture that stops the craving”, presented as a useful reminder for those who wonder about the origin of their hunger pangs. In this content, he emphasizes a simple mechanism of metabolism: the way blood sugar fluctuates after a meal. “First thing, first of all, you have to try to stabilize the blood sugar levels as much as possible,” he explains. His message is aimed as much at people who follow his program as at those who try to structure their meals to avoid snacking.
He emphasizes here that it is not the appetite that controls, but rather the speed at which the sugar level drops, triggering this urgent desire to eat something sweet. The nutritionist reminds us that many people make the wrong strategy by adopting plates that are too light or too monotonous. He also cites a common case among those he supports: there are people who will be content to only eat vegetables. According to him, this unbalanced approach amplifies rapid drops in glucose, leading to the famous feeling of cravings.
He then insists on the way he constructs the meals in his program, in order to avoid this glycemic roller coaster. “The people I help lose weight on Savoir Maigrir, they are always surprised that I include raw vegetables, meat, vegetables in every meal”he observes. However, the logic he defends is based on a completely predictable reaction of the body: if we only provide energy-poor foods, blood sugar barely rises, drops quickly and revives the need for compensation shortly after.
The specialist then explains that the interest in combining different nutrients is not an improvised “appetite deterrent”, but is part of a strategy aimed at slowing down digestion and maintaining a stable level of sugar in the blood. “The protein and vegetable duo, so fiber in reality, will serve to limit the ability of sugar to drop too much and therefore it will prevent me from having sugar cravings.”
For him, the objective is clear: to avoid the sudden variations which generate these compulsive desires. Clearly, the less blood sugar yo-yos, the less likely we are to reach for a snack to regain energy.
