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How to eat melon correctly? Can it be combined with other products – doctor's answer
16.08.2024 13:15
The benefits of melon may be conditional if you eat it as you please, and not as nutritionists advise.
This is a rather heavy dessert, and if you eat it with the wrong foods, you can’t avoid digestive problems.
If, say, you eat a melon, it will "drag" other products eaten before it, since it does not stay in the stomach. This will lead to discomfort in the gastrointestinal tract - heaviness, bloating, belching, stool disorders, because other food did not have time to digest in the stomach and cannot be digested in the intestines, - RIA Novosti quotes Lyudmila Sukhorukova, a gastroenterologist at the Vidnovskaya Clinical Hospital.
The fact is that it does not undergo fermentation in the stomach with other products.
How to eat melon correctly
It is best to consume it two hours before the main meal or two hours after the meal.
In addition, melon has a high glycemic index, which affects insulin production.
The lower the glycemic index, the less the product affects insulin-dependent organs. For example, the pancreas - when consuming products with a low glycemic index, the load on it is less and the risk of causing insulin resistance, obesity, diabetes is lower, the expert notes.
Harm of melon
It is not recommended for diabetics and people with gastrointestinal diseases, gastritis, ulcers in the acute stage and other pathologies to consume melon.
