“A poor diet will create a bad body that will tend to have diseases,” says oncologist David Khayat.

Our health depends on our plate? “It is classic to say that we are what we eat. Every day of our lives, we produce 110 million cells. We make them with carbohydrates, lipids, mineral salts. A poor diet will make a bad body which will tend to have diseases. Diseases that dominate are non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart”specifies David Khayatoncologist.

A bad nutriscore in France

But what to recommend? “What we eat determines our health. The problem is that today it is becoming so complex that it would be necessary to be diploma of nutrition to know what to choose (…) all Europeans are looking for indicators, consumption criteria. Enot France, we have the nutriscorebut it has a number of flaws”, continues the oncologist. “If you only take A or B, you will never eat cheese, never butter even though there are vitamins essential for development. It is not based on the real way of eating, but on artificial 100 grams of the product”, concludes David Khayat.