Christmas dinner is usually full of dishes that are hard to resist, but their hardness to digest can make themselves felt a moment after the meal. Therefore, it is worth supporting your body, not only with a few important habits, but also with a certain drink that will improve our digestion. We show you how to prepare it.
If you want to avoid the feeling of heaviness after feasting, it is worth eating during Christmas Eve make sure you eat calmly and mindfully to avoid overeating and support natural digestive processes. Let’s try to eat slowly and chew each bite thoroughly, because good grinding of food significantly relieves the burden on the stomach.
It’s also a good idea taking short breaks between meals to give your body time to process what you’ve already eaten. Let’s put smaller portions on the plate, so that we can try all the dishes without feeling heavy. Let’s also remember to listen to our body and put the plate aside when we feel full.
We should also avoid lying down immediately after eating. Instead, after Christmas Eve dinner it is worth taking care of light exercise, which will support the functioning of the intestines and speed up the metabolism. A short walk is ideal. Even 20-30 minutes is enough to feel much better and reduce the feeling of heaviness.
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Additional support for our body will be the preparation of a drink recommended by dietitians, which will not only provide valuable nutrients, but above all improve digestion. Therefore, it is worth putting it on the holiday table to avoid the unpleasant feeling of heaviness. To make about 4 servings of this mixture, you will need:
- 2-3 cm of fresh ginger,
- 1 lemon (peeled, seedless),
- 1 large orange,
- 2 apples,
- 1 teaspoon,
- 1 pomegranate (seeds),
- 1/2 small chili pepper (or less if you don’t like it spicy),
- 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric,
- 400-600 ml of mineral water.
Blend all ingredients until the mass becomes perfectly smooth. Then gradually add mineral water to it. Its amount depends on our preferences, and more precisely on the density and intensity of flavor we want to achieve. Of course, the given proportions can be modified by us, if we prefer certain flavors, we add more of this product and similarly, if we do not like something, we can reduce the portion of a given ingredient.
