Doctors have named the optimal portion of pancakes for Pancake Day

To avoid overeating during Shrovetide week, it is worth consuming no more than four pancakes at a time, doctors told Izvestia.

Fatty food leads to the release of more bile, and if a person has problems with the biliary tract, it can provoke an exacerbation, announced the founder and scientific director of the network of clinics of immunorehabilitation, adaptive and preventive medicine Grand Clinic Olga Shuppo.

Pancakes can be made less caloric if you use products with reduced fat content, as well as buckwheat or rye flour, added the doctor-dietitologist, endocrinologist "Family Clinic "RZD-Medicine on Chasovaya" Janeta Barlakova. She also urged to give up sugar in dough.

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