A dietary hack from France, Italy, and the Middle East: eat vegetables first at every meal. Starting with veggies slows glucose absorption and improves gut health, a practice these cultures have used for centuries.
And then the third hack is called the veggie starter hack. That hack means having a plate of vegetables at the beginning of a meal. And you might think, okay, actually this has been done for a long time. In France, we have this concept called crudité, which is raw veggies at the beginning of a meal. In Italy, antipasti, all the roasted, nice vegetables. In the Middle East, they eat herbs by the bunch at the beginning of a meal. You know that salad with vinaigrette? It's quite a common way to start a meal. And now we understand why. It's because veggies contain an amazing substance called fiber. When you have fiber in vegetables, at the beginning of a meal, the fiber has time to go and coat your upper intestine and to create a sort of protective shield, like a superhero deploying herself on the walls of your upper intestine. Really? Yeah! And it's this sort of gooey viscous mesh that is improving your gut lining. And then any glucose coming down afterwards will not be able to get through your bloodstream as quickly. So the veggie starter is incredibly powerful hack.
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