the order that you eat food in
So a couple of years back, when I still had cable, I saw this British show (that I can't recall the name of) that had this woman going around to people who were overweight and had bad eating habits and showing them how badly they were eating and how to fix that.
So the episode was this one guy who in addition to being overweight, also had very bad gas. And one of the things she brought up was the order in which you eat food can have an effect on gas pains and how often and bad smelling the farts were.
The idea was that foods that take longer to digest should be eaten last, because the foods that were easier to digest would stay behind them and ferment in the system making the gas worse.
The heavier the food the further back it went in the eating order.
So you would eat in this order: fruit => vegetables => starches => non meat proteins & dairy => fish => meat
That was generally how I ate anyway because when I was a kid I would eat the veg first to get it out of the way and saved the meat for last because I liked it the best, so it was habit that I kept as I got older.
It makes sense, it is one of those things I heard that I thought it was interesting, like laying on your left side to help digestion (although I'm not sure hoe true that is).
So a couple of years back, when I still had cable, I saw this British show (that I can't recall the name of) that had this woman going around to people who were overweight and had bad eating habits and showing them how badly they were eating and how to fix that.
So the episode was this one guy who in addition to being overweight, also had very bad gas. And one of the things she brought up was the order in which you eat food can have an effect on gas pains and how often and bad smelling the farts were.
The idea was that foods that take longer to digest should be eaten last, because the foods that were easier to digest would stay behind them and ferment in the system making the gas worse.
The heavier the food the further back it went in the eating order.
So you would eat in this order: fruit => vegetables => starches => non meat proteins & dairy => fish => meat
That was generally how I ate anyway because when I was a kid I would eat the veg first to get it out of the way and saved the meat for last because I liked it the best, so it was habit that I kept as I got older.
It makes sense, it is one of those things I heard that I thought it was interesting, like laying on your left side to help digestion (although I'm not sure hoe true that is).
