How Not to Fall Asleep After a Holiday Meal

How Not to Fall Asleep After a Holiday Meal

      Our typical Thanksgiving, and Christmas, meals usually full of starches and sweets, things high on the Glycemic Index. They are also typically low on fresh vegetables and fruits, with the live enzymes to help digest the heavy foods. 

      Serving a big green salad, with an assortment of many colors and textures of vegetables in it, helps satisfy hunger quickly, by giving the body the nutrients it needs. Enjoying the turkey, or other organic protein, and smaller portions of the starches and sweets, with plenty of slightly steamed, sauteed, or fresh vegetables, helps the body assimilate the other foods. 

      Taking a walk after dinner will help to burn off the meal, and prevent the after dinner daze. Holidays can be much more fun when family and friends aren't tired, and grumpy, from eating too much of a good thing.

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                                                                       Nancy Burton, L.Ac.

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