What foods are dangerous to mix on the New Year's table: dangerous combinations

cardiologist, therapist

“The New Year is approaching, which means that a lot of delicious food awaits us. Undoubtedly, to make holiday meals tastier, we mix different foods, whether in salads (olivier, herring under a fur coat), in desserts (whipped cream with strawberries, melon with ham or feta) or in appetizers (sandwiches with butter and caviar, rolls of ham, walnuts, cheese and garlic). However, tasty is not always healthy.”

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What foods are dangerous to mix on the New Year’s table

Not everything can be mixed. Frequent consumption of certain foods together can lead not just to momentary discomfort, but to serious chronic digestive disorders and exacerbation of chronic diseases such as pancreatitis, cholecystitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

For example, a piece of baked turkey wrapped in bacon or steak and beans. These are very heavy foods that quickly lead to satiety. A large portion of such food lingers for a very long time, first in the stomach and then in the intestines, activating the so-called putrefactive microflora – anaerobic microorganisms that release large amounts of toxins.

Cheeses with cold drinks. This combination leads to an enveloping effect due to the fact that the fermented milk product in the stomach and intestines turns into a sticky, viscous mass that sticks to the mucous membrane, preventing the absorption of nutrients.

Consumption of fatty and caloric food with alcohol dramatically increases the risk of exacerbation of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, gallbladder and liver. In addition, such a combination of products can several times increase the risk of exacerbation of chronic and acute pancreatitis.

Therefore, it is better to refuse snacking alcohol with fatty food like salads with mayonnaise, meat, sandwiches with caviar or sweet desserts. This rule also applies to combining hot drinks with spicy food, pickles and pickles.

Spicy food causes blood flow to the intestine and irritation of its mucosa, and pickles inhibit the breakdown of alcohol and burden the kidneys and liver. Therefore, it is best to avoid drinking alcohol.

Dangerous and combinations of products that can cause increased gas formation, such as alcohol with legumes or grapes. Bloated from gas intestines will begin to press on the internal organs, which will also cause an increase in blood pressure, palpitations and shortness of breath.

Another danger of New Year’s Eve night is mixing different alcoholic beverages for several hours. And it’s not about degrees, but about the different effects on the body, the increasing risk of intoxication, up to problems with the liver and heart.

The biggest danger of New Year’s Eve night – overeating, the faithful companions of which:

discomfort and heaviness in the stomach;
constipation;
belching;
heartburn;
fluid retention and edema;
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increased stress on the liver, stomach and cardiovascular system.

At night, the body is not ready for a large meal, but it is mercilessly loaded with alcohol, fatty meat and fish dishes, salads, generously seasoned with mayonnaise, heavy to digest snacks.

In addition to excess fat, most snacks on the table – fish and meat cuts, cheese, pickled vegetables, olives, etc. – exceed all conceivable norms of salt, excess of which will affect the kidneys and blood pressure.

How to avoid the consequences

Minimize all these consequences will allow you to minimize the usual schedule of meals. At certain hours and with a small number of portions. Avoid overeating will also help water: drink during the day and before the feast. Water, filling the volume of the stomach, will dull the feeling of hunger and will contribute to rapid satiety. Both plain drinking water and water with a slice of lemon are suitable.

It is also worth replacing heavy ingredients in the dishes with lighter ones: potatoes with avocado, salted doctor’s sausage with boiled chicken breast or turkey, and use fresh cucumbers along with pickles.

You can also serve mayonnaise salads not as an appetizer, but as a second course. But it is important to remember that it is important to dress any salads immediately before serving and in any case do not use them for several days.

Meat is better not to fry, but bake with a minimum amount of oil, garnishes to make simple, without mayonnaise and complex sauces. Instead of potatoes, rice and pasta, use non-starchy vegetables – spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, zucchini, eggplant, turnips, beets.

To keep track of the amount of food consumed, it is better to immediately put in your plate what you plan to eat. The main rule is not to put a mountain of food as if you were in an all-inclusive hotel for the first time.

A third of the plate with a diameter of about 20-22 centimeters mayonnaise salads or meat snacks, cheeses, hot meat dishes with side dishes, and two-thirds – dishes of fiber, such as salad greens, non-starchy heat-treated vegetables, as well as easily digestible protein – seafood, lean fish.

On the table should be present lemon, grapefruit or fresh pineapple – they improve digestion. And instead of carbonated drinks – drinking water without gas or berry morsels with a useful sweetener, such as stevia or erythritol.

If after the feast appeared heaviness on the part of the digestive system, any enzymes that help digest food will help. You can also arrange a day of unloading, but the main thing is not to start starving. New Year’s holidays – a test for the digestive system, but only from the person himself depends on how serious it will be. Moderation in everything is the key to safety.