How to avoid eating too much?

How to take care of health while eating Dashain dishes?

As soon as Dashain is mentioned, various types of traditional food comes to mind. Desserts are cooked on the nine days of Dashain. Whether at home or as a snack, they cook more dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

In this case, indigestion may occur if you eat too much and rest too much. If there is a chronic disease, if you do not pay attention to diet, it will create more health problems.

To avoid health problems, while enjoying traditional food, it is advisable to be conscious and aware while cooking and eating food to celebrate Dashain. Eating mindfully does not require a lot of effort. How to cook? How much should be eaten? Enough to go.

How much meat to eat?

The World Health Organization recommends that adults consume only about 60 to 70 grams of meat per day for a healthy diet. But during Dashain, people are consuming 200 to 400 grams of meat per day.

If you eat meat carefully during Dashain, it is suitable to eat up to 80 grams of meat. Eating fiber along with meat helps in digestion of meat. To reduce the amount of meat, it is advisable to eat meat only after fiber-rich fruits and salads. By eating in this way, the body gets a balanced amount of protein. Body fat and cholesterol are not enough weight.

The risks of eating too much meat?

Consuming too much meat also puts a burden on the digestive process. Because when another food reaches the stomach without digesting the food eaten in the morning, there is a problem in the digestive process. Since meat contains high protein, the stomach and liver cannot function properly.

In addition, eating too much red meat can increase the risk of flatulence, indigestion, and constipation from normal to long-term increases in cholesterol and blood pressure. The liver digests meat. Liver should be active when eating without any gap of time.

To put it simply, it does not take time to digest meat, it takes time to digest fat. Carbohydrates and fiber-rich foods are digested within a few hours, while fat in meat is digested only after bile is released from the liver into the small intestine.

Even if you do this, fat accumulates in the body without digesting the meat. It is likely to cause obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, gastric, stomach upset and rectal problems including constipation. If you abuse it, there is a risk of ulcers and heart disease.

Vegetarian food should not be eaten excessively

Vegetarians eat paneer the most during Dashain. There is no harm in eating properly. But if you continuously eat more than it is said to be beneficial, it also causes problems.

How much sweets to consume?

During Dashain, sweets are also consumed in excess. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that the average adult consume less than 25 grams, or 6 tablespoons, of sugar per day. Which we are eating in our daily life from the amount of sugar found in sweets, drinks and processed food.

But do we eat only 6 spoons of sugar during the festival?

In this way, the consumption of excessive sweets and sweets affects both short-term and long-term. As such, it can cause a rapid increase in blood sugar levels. Long-term heavy consumption increases the risk of obesity, type-2 diabetes, non-alcoholic liver disease and dental problems.

How many calories does the body need daily?

A normal adult male needs about 2500 calories per day. While for women it is about 200 calories. These requirements may vary depending on the person's physical activity level, age.

Studies have shown that during Dashain, 800 to 1200 calories are eaten with meat, rice, vegetables and sweets.

When the body gets more calories from food than it needs, the extra calories are stored as fat, which leads to obesity and insulin resistance. As a result, there will be a disturbance in the blood pressure level and the risk of diseases that will not go away with time.