3 Antidotes to Overeating

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you get the same nutrition from a piece of fruit no matter when you eat it. stop worrying about when to eat fruit, just eat it, and more of it.

— Anonymous

While your recommendations are healthy and helpful, you might want to address the fact that eating fruit after a meal is not a healthy choice. After a meal of proteins and carbs (which by the way should not be eaten together at the same meal anyway), there is a digestion process to break down those foods that takes more time. Fruit on the other hand digests more quickly, and if eaten on top of a meal, will digest, breakdown, and want to be eliminated from the body quicker than the food eaten at the meal. Trying to push through to the colon and eventually out the body, the digested fruit creates bloating/gas, discomfort, and interferes with the disgestion process of the meal. There should be at least a 2-hour waiting period before putting fruit on top of a meal. Tip to remember: always consume the quicker-digesting foods first, and the slower/heavier foods on top. For example: carrot juice, salad, veggies, carb...in that order. Makes for a much more pleasant eating experience.

— Anonymous