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One Mistake You May Be Making While Eating Your Meals

29 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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In this short video, the speaker warns that combining too many different dishes in a single meal—such as a thali with multiple curries, rice, chapati, vegetables, salads, raita, papad, achar, and dessert—overloads the stomach’s ability to release digestive juices, leading to slower digestion, indigestion, acidity, bloating, and potential weight gain. The speaker advises limiting each meal to a maximum of two or three dishes and choosing only one type of grain (either rice or chapati) to improve digestion and enjoyment of the food.

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One mistake that you may be making while eating your meals is to mix too many dishes together. Have you ever eaten a thali that looks like this? Some dal with rice with chapati with two three different sabzi along with some salad, some raita. Oh, and how can we miss some papad and achar and of course some dessert? When you give your stomach a meal like this, which has so many ingredients combined, your stomach is not able to release so many digestive juices together in order to digest it. So a meal with too many ingredients takes longer to digest and eventually leads to indigestion, acidity, bloating, and excess weight. Instead, eat a maximum of 2 or 3 dishes together. Next time when there's many dishes kept on the table, instead of picking everything and filling your plate up, pick any 2 or 3 dishes. It will not only digest much better, but you will enjoy your meal more. Instead of taking multiple grains together, eat only one grain. If chapati and rice both are in front of you, pick any one.