{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"No Forking Nonsense - The Nutritionist UK","title":"Stomach bug: what to eat and drink","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":939,"description":"STOMACH BUG?\nHalf the country still believes flat Coke helps.\nIt's one of the worst things you can drink.\n\nThis one's entirely practical. No theory you can't use today.\nMost of the advice people are working from on stomach bugs is about thirty years out of date, and one bit of it actively slows your recovery down.\nIn this episode:\nWhy this is a fluid problem rather than a food problem, and the sipping technique that keeps it down\nWhat rehydration sachets actually do, why the sugar in them isn't for energy, and the one thing to buy now while you're well\nWhy flat cola, fruit juice, fizzy drinks and sports drinks all make it worse\nWhy \"starve it out\" is outdated advice, and what the evidence says about eating early\nThe BRAT diet: fine as a starting point, poor as a rulebook\nWhat two large trials in the New England Journal of Medicine found when they tested probiotics on nine hundred children each\nWhen not to reach for Imodium\nWhy the scales drop and why that weight isn't fat\nWhen to stop listening to me and ring 111","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OrKGtLZblvV2vo8ljmzlXnwMX8LWVdWaLdw4xca1njY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iNmI5/YmVmNjMwZThmM2Yw/YzZiNzc2MDliZmYy/NzdjMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}