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How to prepare your health for a festive feast?
Festive feasts at all times were distinguished by an excessive number of dishes and portion sizes, rather than the usual daily portions of dishes that the body, and in particular the gastrointestinal tract, is used to. It is on the gastrointestinal tract that the entire burden of the abundance of festive dishes falls, since involuntarily a person wants to try all the types of food presented on the festive table, especially since many of them are prepared extremely rarely.
Most often holiday dishes include foods that are difficult for the stomach and intestines, for example, long-digestible (meat, mushrooms, smoked meats, milkshakes and creams, fatty foods), as well as dishes rich in complex carbohydrates (cakes, pastries, pies, muffins, cookies, various confectionery). With such a selection of food products, the digestive glands are forced to produce too much and more often than usual digestive enzymes, which also affects the state of the internal environment of the gastrointestinal tract and the health of the organs that have such glands. And this means that the liver and pancreas will be involved in the smoothly unhealthy work of the digestive tract.
No one seeks to count calories, all strict diets fail, in relation to delicious dishes, willpower refuses to serve on holidays. How in this state of things, to meet the holiday with dignity and not lose health at the festive meal?
There are several rules, following which, without much willpower and cutting back on the festive diet, you can maintain the health of the body during periods of feast with an abundance of food.
It is known that early rise and lack of sleep increase appetite, and this is completely inopportune on the days of the planned festive plentiful meal, since a person will be haunted by hunger all day long, and he will begin to eat up long before the start of the festive feast. On the days of the planned plentiful food holidays, try to get as much sleep as possible in order to deceive the body by replacing food with sleep.
On holidays for breakfast it is better to eat a serving of prosaic oatmeal, boiled eggs or a steam omelet, rather than sweet pancakes, pancakes, cheesecakes, cakes or cookies. Breakfast should not include sweets in any form.
Fasting before a festive feast is another mistake that will lead to overeating and provide a high load on the digestive organs. Before the time comes for the festive feast, you need to eat, but choose food based on its low calorie content and high fiber content. For such purposes, cereals, whole grain or bran bread, fruit or vegetable salads (from raw or boiled ingredients), hard cheese with a low percentage of fat content, and cottage cheese are suitable.
Immediately before the start of the festive meal or in its midst, you can take sorbents that will begin to “pick” unwanted substances from the digestive tract. And you can also use preparations containing enzymes (festal, mezym and others), which will help the digestive organs speed up the digestion and evacuation of food from the intestines.
During the festive feast, it is necessary to treat the choice of dishes with a share of intelligibility:
- don't add smoked meat dishes to boiled, baked or fried meat;
- don't add smoked dishes to fish dishes;
- don't use additional seasonings or hot sauces for already prepared dishes;
- eliminate carbonated drinks from the festive diet, and if there is no way to drink anything else, degas the available drinks by pouring them into shot glasses or glasses in advance and waiting for the gas to evaporate. Carbonated drinks of any kind (sweet pops, mineral water, champagne) increase the volume of the intestines and create a premature feeling of heaviness in the stomach and intestines.
- take not full portions, but quarters or halves then you can repeat the dish you liked without the risk of overeating.
By following all the rules for eating on the days of festive feasts, you can't worry about overloading the digestive tract and the ailments associated with overeating.
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