In addition to what you eat, the ORDER you eat it, is also important for anti-aging.
Too much sugar (carbs) increases insulin and cause it to spike. This is called glycation (Glycemic Index). Protein mixes with sugars to become glycated protein. This is one of the reasons of aging.
In order to reduce glycation, you should eat in this order.
1. Vegetables (ideally raw veggies) or seaweed
2. Proteins
3. Carbohydrates
Why is that?
- By eating vegetables first, the veggie's fiber becomes bigger with water in your stomach, making you feel full more quickly. This helps you eat less.
- Vegetables force you to chew more, which leads you feel full more quickly too.
- Raw vegetables, have a digestive enzyme, which aides in the digestion of proteins, which is a good reason to eat after the veggies.
- If your stomach has vegetable fiber already, carbohydrates, which you eat after veggies and proteins, gets covered with this fiber,and slows down speed of transportation of the sugar into blood. This helps slow down insulin spike.
- Protein is hard to digest in general, so if you eat protein first, the protein stays in stomach too long. This forces other food to stay in stomach too long too, and slows down digestion of all the food.
