I return to talk about the Lemme Diet , and I begin with the renewed interest that TV has for the person of Alberico Lemme, a pharmacist who has developed a food method that is questionable from a scientific point of view.

LEMME DIET: BRIEF OVERVIEW

In fact, in Dr. Lemme’s books it is asserted that it is the pharmacist who has to take care of the diets, that sugars make you fat and fats do not, that you can eat kilos of meat or fish a day in the slimming phase without any contraindications for health, that the salt causes diabetes and that calories do not exist.

Fats, especially if saturated, are linked to overweight , non-alcoholic fatty liver disease , risk of cancer , insulin resistance . Calories exist, as chemical energy via ATP produces heat as well as many other chemical reactions in our body .
The consumption of salt is controversial, but according to many studies it would improve insulin sensitivity. It is also associated with lower body fat via brown fat thermogenesis . Sugars make you fat via de novo lipogenesis only if taken in high excess, i.e. over a thousand calories more per day than just sugar

(not that this is recommendable, of course).
Long-term excess protein is associated with kidney, heart, and liver disorders, as well as an increased risk of some cancers.

LEMME DIET: POPULAR ALSO THANKS TO TV

The Lemme Diet is not recent. For years, Mr. Lemme, a pharmacist, has been supplying it to his patients, called cadets, but especially recently on TV we talk about him.
Following the fact that Briatore or Berlusconi would have lost weight with the Lemme diet, Lemme is often a guest on TV.

I will see in this article to explain the reasons why when Alberico Lemme goes on TV there is a risk of misinformation according to science.
And why, although the show must go on , perhaps it would be appropriate for the authors of the broadcasts to avoid talking about health in entertainment programs.

If someone told you that you have to ingest an intestinal worm to lose weight, would you invite him on TV?
Yet the tapeworm diet exists, it makes you lose many kilos, but it is also dangerous for your health.
So would it make sense to promote it on TV? I guess not.
So it’s not about losing weight. Rather, it is healthy weight loss.

Instead, despite the complaints of people who have been ill following the Lemme diet , Mr. Lemme, who is not a dietician and is not a nutritionist but a pharmacist who gives food advice, goes on TV and talks freely about his method, of faced with a contradiction often made of people who are not doctors (or, when there is some doctor, not a dietician).

The fact that there is no real contradiction means that on TV Alberico Lemme can say a series of things without scientific validity without anyone being able to argue with him.

I would like to point out some of them that caught my eye when I saw him for the umpteenth time on TV.