Since there has been a lot of discussion about cricket foods in recent months, HotNews.ro asked Giselle Nutsa, a gastroenterologist and nutrition expert, if you can be considered a vegetarian or vegan if you consume, for example, flour from these insects.

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“We enter the sphere of motivation and perception of the concept of eating meat or products of animal origin. If vegetarians or vegans only want to not affect the health and well-being of animals, particularly mammals, vertebrates, we can say that you can be a vegan or a vegetarian,” she said.

Also, says Giselle Nutsu, if you want to include absolutely every living thing here, it won’t work.

Another topic for discussion was diet and sports.

What is more important: diet and then sports or vice versa?

“If we are talking in general terms, that is, for a person who does not want to gain weight, lose weight, or gain muscle mass, diet is much more important. This is a decisive factor, especially when we want to lose weight, build muscle mass, or perhaps gain weight,” she says.

• Diet is 70% of lifestyle, and sports is 30%.

“When you want to lose weight and you say, ‘I’m going to the gym and I’m not following a diet,’ you’re not going to see the same results. If you do sports, and the diet is not ideal, it creaks, then the results are delayed. Diet is the basis of lifestyle, and sports and recreation are roughly in the same place. They are also necessary, but not essential,” Giselle Nutsu explained.