If you eat too much, as we tend to do around Christmas, it’s no surprise your stomach might hurt, but what we might not think about is that we actually mix food we normally don’t. Any stomach could start rebelling because of that.
We eat all kinds of meat, rice pudding, nuts and oranges and way too few vegetables around Christmas. A good piece of advice is to eat fruit on an empty stomach, otherwise it will ferment and create gas and bloating. Eat fruit for breakfast or three hours after, or half an hour before any other food.
Nuts combine well with dried fruit, but not together with meat and grains.
If your stomach is extra sensitive even a combination of grains and meat or milk products could make your stomach upset. You can try to eat them separately. For example rice and root vegetables for lunch and a chicken salad for dinner.
Read more on how to combine food and get rid of bloating, gas, stomach pain and even the runs:) under Food Combining.
