2023-10-03 03:06:50
It is well known that to ensure good digestion, you must avoid dining at too late an hour as much as possible. The ideal is to leave at least two hours between the end of the meal and the time you go to bed. This is why many nutrition experts recommend avoiding eating your evening meal relatively early, if possible before 6 p.m. as in the Nordic countries, or otherwise avoid consuming certain foods that are difficult to digest following this time.
“The rate at which the body digests food and metabolizes nutrients does not slow down dramatically when the clock strikes a certain time. However, for most of us, physical activity levels decline in the evening, which affects the efficiency with which calories are burned.”explains the nutritionist Rose Fergusonin the columns of Vogue. And to add: “In addition, some research suggests that eating late can disrupt circadian rhythms, which affects metabolic processes, and that it is better to finish your last meal early, both for weight management, better quality sleep and increased longevity.
To avoid the risk of seeing your nights be disrupted by difficult digestion, but also of gaining weight by not giving food the necessary time to be broken down by your body, it is advisable to put the kibosh on certain categories of food. at dinner time.
What foods should you avoid following 6 p.m.?
This is the case, for example, of fatty and mature cheeses such as gorgonzola, mascarpone or even camembert which can take up to 5 hours to be completely digested due to their richness in saturated fats. We therefore prefer lighter alternatives such as cow’s milk ricotta, cottage cheese or stracchino.
Same thing for fatty meats also to avoid in your evening menus, in the same way as fried foods often responsible for various stomach disorders, as well as spicy foodwhich can “cause indigestion, but also increase body temperature, making it more difficult to fall asleep”as Rose Ferguson points out.
When it comes to vegetables, beware of choux (white cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, etc.), particularly difficult and time-consuming to assimilate. We keep the fish in oil rather for lunch, as well as mixed salads, whose variety of raw vegetables can slow down digestion and start to ferment in the stomach during the night, causing bloating. When it comes to desserts, you obviously have to be careful regarding sugar, which we find for example in the ICESIn chocolate et the sweets in general.
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