How to Recover from a Fatty Meal

Borrowed from Joel K. Kahn, MD

High-fat meals can constrict arteries for hours, reducing blood flow. Dr. Kahn believes everyone would be better with eating more vegetables & less meat. Here is his advice when splurging:

1. Marinate your meat.
When cooking meat at high temperatures, it creates compounds called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs. This increases inflammation & the risk of diabetes. To minimize AGE, marinate meat in lemon juice or vinegar, grill it moist at lower temperatures & remove charred corners.
2. Drink red wine
According the Chilean researchers, having 8oz. of red wine a day with a high-fat diet reduces the meals' negative effects on the eaters' arteries. Another study found similar benefits with grape juice.
3. Add healthy grains.
According to a study at Yale University, people who ate bowls of oats or wheat cereal with a high-fat meal had less constriction of their arteries. These grains may reduce fat absorption into the body. Add oats to the hamburger patties or serve meat on whole wheat buns.
4. Add avocado.
UCLA researchers found harmful reaction to arteries within 2 hours of people eating hamburgers. When these people added sliced avocado to the burger, the harm nearly vanished. Nutrient-packed produce, such as avocado, seems to neutralize inflammatory effects of meat.
5. Take a walk.
30 minutes or longer of brisk walking after a meal can reduce the rise of fat concentration in your blood by 10-25%.

I, also, find it helpful to take OmniTrim Chito® to block some of those fat calories.