BBQ Ideas: How To Have A Gut-Friendly Barbecue & Stay Healthy This Season.

BBQ Ideas: How To Have A Gut-Friendly Barbecue & Stay Healthy This Season.

Just because its grilling season does not mean you have to wake up with a swollen stomach. Here are some tips to help your digestive system when eating a feast. There is nothing as human and primal as taking down a bumper pack of sausages while under the influence of lighter-fluid fumes, cheap beer and sunstroke.

Its Barbecue season, but all these adventures can cause major havoc to our digestive systems the next morning. So how do you not wake with a bloated stomach and have a healthier berbecue? below is the tips on BBQ Ideas: How To Have A Gut-Friendly Barbecue & Stay Healthy This Season.

Go Big On The Vegetables (Vegies).

Go Big On The Vegetables (Vegies).

At this time we are tempted to load it up with sausages, burgers, chicken wings and lamb chops. But If we were to have the same mind set to the variety of vegetables we serve up as to the meat, there would be more balance and variety in our gut microbiota – these are good and bad bacteria, funguses and parasites that inhabit our gut , and they have been linked to better health in our gut. If you take the same fruit and veg daily, there would be a decrease in the range of your microbiota, so get creative and take advantage of the vegetable skewers. “If you want to increase gut microbe diversity, you should try and have 30 different plant-based foods a week.” says dietitian Megan Rossi.

Take A Walk Before The Barbecue 

Take A Walk Before The Barbecue 

The founder of The Food Treatment Clinic and a dietitian Kirsten Jackson explains it has been shown that relaxation and exercise improves your digestive health and that poor gut microbiota is connected to poor mental health and stress. She says “Doing a daily walk of 30 minutes can help to reduce those stress levels and to improve your microbiota,”. Just don’t think of it as walking to improve your appetite but rather a walk to improve digestive health.

 

Always Eat Breakfast

Always Eat Breakfast

Jackson warns to beware of falling into the trap of eating nothing for breakfast so as to save yourself for the barbecue lunch.– this may seem like being virtuous, but your gut microbiota will not be thanking you for this choice because according to jackson “at lunch time you’ll be very hungry, so you’ll eat more than you would if you’d eaten breakfast – and this is likely to have even bigger impact on your gut,”.

Stay Off The Buns

Stay Off The Buns

If you have got IBS, you may be sensitive to high Fodmap containing food – Fodmaps are ferment-able carbohydrates that are broken down by your microbiota. The process creates a lot of gas in some people making the following day very uncomfortable. Buns made from wheat that are used for burger are at the top of the list high Fodmap foods and seeing how easy it is to eat two or more during the course of berbecueing “that can have a quite dramatic effect” says jackson.

So do have a nice Barbecue and enjoy the season!

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