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Light food - definition, application and recipes
- Light food is a diet that protects the stomach.
- This is important to relieve the pain of stomach disorders and speed healing.
- Not everything that is generally healthy is suitable as a light diet. Otherwise, avoid healthy foods that are difficult to digest, have high levels of fat or acidity.
- As a light diet are low-fat vegetables, low-acid fruits, simple carbohydrates, herbal teas and degreased broths.
- Stomach-sparing food ranges from complete relief through a purely liquid diet to normal food, which lacks only the elusive elements.
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- What is the purpose of stomach-friendly food??
- Is stomach-friendly nutrition always the same?
- What is light food?
- Whole food easily digestible
- For which complaints helps stomach-friendly food?
- The hard phase
- Phase two
- Vitamins yes, acid no
- Milk and cheese?
- herbs and spices
- No-Gos
- How do you eat to preserve the stomach??
- Gastro-friendly meals
What is the purpose of stomach-friendly food??
Proper eating and drinking relieves the stomach and intestines, if they are attacked by acute complaints and so can not fully utilize every food. Gentle food is part of a therapy, so that the stomach and intestines become powerful again.
Well-tolerated diet increases well-being - especially with gastritis, which is associated with severe pain, shortness of breath, chest tightness, nausea and cramps. It promotes the healing of gastrointestinal disease.
With Schonkost connect many rusks and tea. In fact, rusk provides easy-to-use carbohydrates and herbal tea can calm the stomach. (Image: oxie99 / fotolia.com) Is stomach-friendly nutrition always the same?
The particular form of the gentle diet depends on the type and extent of the disease. Following severe surgery, advanced inflammation or after a hunger strike, a purely liquid diet may be the order of the day, with minor problems offering a light diet. Also, there is not one healing food for each person. Doctors create an individual diet plan and those affected actively help shape it.
What is light food?
It is a stomach-friendly diet that relieves the stomach and intestines and thus helps the body in the recovery of diseases. This is necessary because the stomach and intestines do hard work under normal circumstances: they digest any kind of food, filtering out the nutrients, while the indigestible parts ultimately leave the body through the anus outlet. During gastrointestinal illness, however, the organs can no longer perform this digestion as needed.
In the past, diet consisted mainly of black tea, meat or vegetable broth, as well as rusk or white bread. That was one-sided, but meaningful. Black tea contracts blood vessels and relieves stomach disorders. The broth supplies the body with nutrients such as proteins, without the organs having to consume energy to process solid food. Rusk or white bread fill the stomach, but do not irritate it with acid or "aggressive" substances. Also popular as "health food" were oatmeal, eggs and milk as well as bound soups. In excess, however, such a diet can lead to constipation.
Whole food easily digestible
Today, light food includes organic food in an easily digestible form, ie without food that can cause discomfort, and with cooking methods that do not burden the stomach and intestines: steaming, steaming, cooking and low-fat grilling, but not oil-rich searing, spicy seasoning, fermentation , pickle, marinate or raw food.
Light food is not necessarily identical to "healthy food". Some foods are very healthy, for a light whole foods (let alone complete relief) but unsuitable: onions, fruits with high acidity, chili, pepper, beans and broad legumes.
Some - usually healthy - foods are unsuitable for a diet. These include, of course, hot spices, but also, for example, all cabbage. (Image: murziknata / fotolia.com) For which complaints helps stomach-friendly food?
Light diet promotes the healing of:
- Abdominal influenza,
- diarrhea,
- indigestion,
- Food intolerance,
- bloating,
- heartburn,
- bloating,
- stomach cramps,
- Gastritis (viral or bacterial),
- constipation,
- stomach pressure,
- Gastritis (gastritis),
- pancreatitis,
- liver disease,
- Diseases of bile,
- gastric ulcers
- and intestinal inflammation.
The hard phase
For severe complaints in the stomach, intestine, liver and bile medical specialists advise to complete relief. For at least three days, only unsweetened tea (black or chamomile), oatmeal soup, oatmeal, broth without fat (for hydration), rice, rice waffles, millet balls, uncooked crispbread, toast and rusk for simple carbohydrates are now allowed for at least three days.
Phase two
If the stomach is a little stressed then low-acid fruits like apples, pears, bananas, melons, grapes or kiwis are added. Bananas are particularly easy on the stomach, they satisfy the hunger feeling without burdening the stomach. In the second phase, you can also easily consume vegetables such as fennel, carrots, green salad, zucchini or peas. Also mashed potatoes is ideal. Taboo, on the other hand, are greasy fried potatoes or French fries and foods that are generally fried in fat or fried.
Vitamins yes, acid no
Fruit is a double-edged sword. Gastric complaints are often due to hyperacidity, which means that the stomach releases too much stomach acid. This is also the case when their disease is associated with frequent vomiting. The last thing the stomach needs now is extra acidity. Do you suffer from a cold at the same time? This is often the case with gastrointestinal influenza. To counteract this vitamin C helps. This substance is found mainly in fruits, especially in currants, blackberries, blueberries, lemons, oranges and limes. Caution: All these once very healthy fruits contain a lot of fruit acid and therefore do not spare the stomach. Reach for apples or pears for vitamin C intake.
Milk and cheese?
Milk and cheese are not always gentle on the stomach, but they are not always harmful. Here it depends on the fat content, as fat strains the stomach. Buttermilk, sour milk, low-fat milk, low-fat yoghurt as well as low-fat cheeses, especially fresh or soft cheeses are suitable. As an insider tip for gastric patients is the Harz cheese made from curds. This contains extremely low fat, but high levels of protein. Probiotic yoghurts even block the spread of bacteria in bacterial inflammation of the stomach, as well as radish and radish.
Dairy products are limited, they should be low in fat. A particularly recommended type of cheese is the Harz cheese, because it contains little fat but a lot of protein. (Image: PhotoSG / fotolia.com) herbs and spices
Some herbs and spices strain an inflamed stomach, others soothe it. Cumin, coriander, chamomile, basil, fennel, ginger, anise and lemon balm are good for the stomach. These can be added to the food as a spice or eaten as a tea. These herbs have the pleasant "side effect" that the light food does not taste like dull "hospital food", so you do not necessarily perceive the gentle food as a waiver of delicious food.
No-Gos
You should urgently avoid some foods and stimulants in case of acute stomach discomfort, as these aggravate, sometimes even trigger the diseases. These are:
- Roasted, smoked, deep-fried,
- fatty food like pork bacon, fat lamb, mackerel or eel,
- Fat dairy products such as ripe camembert, blue cheese or whipped cream,
- Nuts (very healthy, but high in fat),
- Avocados (high fat content),
- Citrus fruits (high acidity),
- immature fruit (difficult to digest),
- flatulent vegetables such as onions, leeks, cabbage, legumes or paprika,
- spicy spices like chili and black pepper,
- Sparkling water and soft drinks (carbonic acid is an acid and irritates the gastric mucosa),
- too hot or too cold drinks, because the organs have to do extra work to bring them to body temperature,
- Coffee, because it stimulates the production of gastric acid, and that is exactly what you do not need when it comes to inflammation,
- Alcohol (strictly speaking, not a food, but a poison) Often, alcohol abuse is even the cause of inflammation of the gastric mucosa (gastritis) or a chronic hyperacidity of the stomach
- and too much salt and sugar.
How do you eat to preserve the stomach??
Gastric discomfort is not just about what, but also how you eat. First of all, you must not "over-eat" under any circumstances. Gluttony is also a reason for stomach upset.
- Eat many small meals instead of less big ones. Then the stomach produces less acid.
- Chew slowly and thoroughly. They digest so and take the stomach off work.
- Eat your food at body temperature. Then the organs do not need extra energy to regulate the temperature.
Gastro-friendly meals
For example, you could start the day with a green smoothie of spinach and rocket and a banana. For lunch there would be a pureed potato and carrot soup with lean yoghurt, seasoned with vegetable broth and cumin. A slice of wholemeal bread with low-fat cream cheese or lean meat (turkey) would be the snack in between. Pureed soups can be prepared fantastically from pumpkin, zucchini, carrots, parsnips and kohlrabi. For dinner, a couscous salad with steamed vegetables, which you eat lukewarm. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)