That can not be eaten on an empty stomach

What products can not, even if you want to eat, and what to replace them, so that the stomach does not hurt.

Dishes with lots of spices

When an empty stomach is rumbling, I want to pounce on the aromatic dishes with hot spices. But because of the spices in the stomach can worsen the discomfort, says Lisa Gendzhi (Lisa Ganjhu), MD, a gastroenterologist Langone Medical Center at New York University.

His stomach is empty, and nothing softens the effect of spices, when they come into contact with the lining of the stomach.

Lisa Gendzhi

Food with hot pepper sauce, or better left for the second course, until at least something in the stomach.

What to eat

Dairy products are an excellent job of extinguishing the fire of spicy food and gently cover the walls of the stomach. Therefore, Indian cuisine is often served with sauces based on yogurt. So if you are hungry before you and spicy food, first take a few sips of milk or eat a couple spoons of unsweetened yogurt. Spices are allowed, but quieter: cumin or coriander do not irritate the digestive system.

Fruits, if this is the only dish

Apple or pear by themselves do not kill hunger, Melton said Tamara (Tamara Melton), dietitian-nutritionist, a spokesman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in Atlanta. The sugar found in fruits, enters the bloodstream more slowly than sugar from candy, thanks to fat, but it does not save the desire to eat.

By the fruit should add foods high in protein. They are slowly digested and, studies showAcyl and Total Ghrelin Are Suppressed Strongly by Ingested Proteins, Weakly by Lipids, and Biphasically by Carbohydrates.Inhibit the production of ghrelin - the hormone responsible for the feeling of hunger. It ghrelin signals the brain about hunger.

What to eat

Seize fruits or nuts-pigtail cheese. The perfect combination of fruit and cottage cheese dressed with Greek yogurt.

Snacks, chips and cookies

In five crackers can hide up to 100 calories, which will not help to deal with hunger. This is the main problem of fast food snacks: due to the large number of readily available carbohydrates they dramatically increase the level of sugar in the blood, which then falls rapidly. And you want to eat again.

What to eat

For a snack on the run better stock up on sandwich with chicken or turkey. 200-300 calories which will cope better with the feeling of hunger.

Orange, mint, coffee, ketchup

It's all foods that stimulate acid production in the stomach. If you eat them on an empty stomach, the effects will manifest in the form of heartburn and pain, says Dr. Lisa Gendzhi. In an empty stomach and without a lot of acid and food to neutralize its effect on the lining of the small. Coffee and caffeine are irritating to patients with gastritis.

What to eat

Most vegetables do not cause rapid acid secretion, in addition to their weight of fiber, which helps with gastritis. Vegetables, pea or mashed potatoes - great to stave off hunger.

sushi

The combination of white rice and soy sauce hurts when you eat them on an empty stomach, says Bella Maria (Maria Bella), nutritionist, founder of the clinic Top Balance Nutrition in New York. The rice low in fiber, and from the salty sauce thirsty. But our brain confuses thirst and hunger. At the same time trying to fill an empty stomach and seize thirsty, you eat more. Will pay a heavy feeling.

What to eat

Those rolls, wrapped not only in rice, but also in cucumber (or only in cucumber). A better start with the usual salad.

Alcohol

Alcohol, of course, do not eat and drink. But on an empty stomach is better not to do it - you will be intoxicated, and then want to have even more. Hungry and drunk people at risk to eat everything: and chips, pizza and spicy, and everything else, from what is better to abstain. This is due to the influence of alcohol on the level of leptin - the hormone that signals the brain about the saturation. Three servings of alcohol - and you have 30% less sensitive to the hormoneIs Decreased Leptin Secretion after Alcohol Ingestion Catecholamine-mediated?.

What to eat

It's simple: first, an appetizer, and then everything else. Do not start with salty peanuts, and with grilled vegetables or chicken dishes - quite light and nutritious at the same time.