No Forking Nonsense - The Nutritionist UK

Stomach bug: what to eat and drink

No Forking Nonsense - The Nutritionist UK

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STOMACH BUG? Half the country still believes flat Coke helps. It's one of the worst things you can drink.

This one's entirely practical. No theory you can't use today. Most of the advice people are working from on stomach bugs is about thirty years out of date, and one bit of it actively slows your recovery down. In this episode: Why this is a fluid problem rather than a food problem, and the sipping technique that keeps it down What rehydration sachets actually do, why the sugar in them isn't for energy, and the one thing to buy now while you're well Why flat cola, fruit juice, fizzy drinks and sports drinks all make it worse Why "starve it out" is outdated advice, and what the evidence says about eating early The BRAT diet: fine as a starting point, poor as a rulebook What two large trials in the New England Journal of Medicine found when they tested probiotics on nine hundred children each When not to reach for Imodium Why the scales drop and why that weight isn't fat When to stop listening to me and ring 111

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