Eating Like Stockpiling for a Famine This Festive Season? No! Your Body Deserves Better.
Stop the Holiday Feast Before It Feasts on Your Health
The holiday season is a time for indulgence, but overloading your plate with fried, salty, and oily foods is no gift to your body. Celebrations shouldn’t mean neglecting your health. Think before you eat—your future self will thank you.
The Heavy Toll of Festive Overeating
Imagine this: you’re seated at a table laden with golden-fried foods, creamy sauces, and salty snacks. The taste is irresistible, but each bite takes a silent toll. Fried foods clog your arteries. Salt pushes your blood pressure higher. Excess oil burdens your liver. Meanwhile, vegetables and fruits—packed with nutrients your body craves—are nowhere in sight.
A diet heavy in fried, spicy and salty foods creates the perfect storm for non-communicable diseases like hypertension, diabetes, and heart disease. During the festive season, this dietary imbalance often skyrockets. Studies reveal a significant rise in emergency visits for digestive complications following holiday feasts.
But here’s the truth: you don’t have to compromise your health to enjoy the festivities. Some of us will soon be received in emergencies because of food poisoning, others, by overeating will consult for indigestion. Abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, acid reflux, gastritis, etc. are common signs.
Feast Responsibly, Thrive Healthily
This holiday season, make every bite a celebration of health. Small changes can make a big difference:
- Chose a Clean Area for Fun Gathering: To avoid any food poisoning.
- Align With Your Initial Health Conditions: Diabetes (Keep your attention on quantity of sugary food to keep at a lowest level), Hypertension (monitor salt as a led flag).
- Balance Your Plate: Fill half your plate with vegetables and fruits, a quarter with lean proteins, and the last quarter with whole grains or healthier starches.
- Go Easy on Fried Foods: Because their concentration in sugar increase and are covered by toxins formed from frying oil and sugary foods.
- Season Smarter: Replace excessive salt with herbs and some spices (not much) for flavor.
- Set What and How Much You eat, Limiting Portions: Take smaller servings and savor each bite.
- Skip any fried or spicy dish: This is to give gut a break, avoid/limit gut-lining inflammation and a time to grow gut flora. Vegetables soup could be better at this time.
- Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of water to support digestion and curb overeating.
Your body works hard for you every day. This festive season, show it some love by making mindful food choices. Celebrate with joy, but also with balance—because the best gift you can give yourself is good health for the year ahead.
Eating will not end by Christmas and New Year celebration, mouth and stomach are still there all the year!
Do you think that your Intestine is loaded by waste? Eat enough and regularly vegetables such as amaranth for its benefits including antioxidants and anti-inflammation properties (see photo) and get a healthy gut by choosing positive lifestyle changes.
Be Safe and Healthy
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