48 Fast and Effective Meal Recipes for Hangovers: Recover Quickly and Naturally Using These Powerful Recipes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781635311945)

48 Fast and Effective Meal Recipes for Hangovers: Recover Quickly and Naturally Using These Powerful Recipes

By Joe Correa CSN

There's an easy way to remember what kinds of foods can help you recover from hangovers. They are the foods your grandmother would have recognized as being edible: fruits, vegetables, chicken, etc. Not some oversweetened, artifical flavoured, foodlike substance in a box. These are some of the most important characteristics of foods that need to be on your plate.

If you usually get a rush of energy and then a drop after eating something starchy or sugary, you probably need to pay attention to how your body handles sugar. Dips in blood sugar can increase the effects of alcohol. It may be that the low blood sugar triggers the hangover symptoms and the impulse to drink even more. Fortunately, blood sugar levels respond quickly to changes in food choices.

It just takes knowing which foods have the greatest impact on blood glucose. Once you understand this, it's easy to figure out that a glass of orange juice, which is very sweet and quickly absorbed into the system, will have a higher glycemic index than a stalk of raw broccoli, which is not sweet and takes time to digest.

Unless you are chewing on stalks of sugarcane, the sugar you normally eat is the refined kind. White sugar contains no vitamins, minerals, nor fiber, just carbohydrates. The same goes for high-fructose corn syrup. Check the labels on the packages of food you buy and you'll find it in all sorts of baked goods and breakfast cereals, to name just a few of the food categories affected by this situation. High-fructose corn syrup is worse for cholesterol levels than is saturated fat, increases bone loss, and contributes to fatty liver. To satisfy your sweet tooth, eat whole fruit instead.

It has to be fresh

Fresh fruits and vegetables supply your body with fiber as well as vitamins and minerals that can help you in your recovery process.

Unprocessed and unrefined

Unprocessed and unrefined foods are the key to a quick recovery. They supply your body with vitamins and minerals that may become deficient with alcohol abuse. They are also probably free of many of the chemical additives found in processed food products, which can burden the liver as it works intensly to detoxify these substances.

Many nutrients in food are actually pigments, that's the reason that tomatoes are red and blueberries are blue. Eating a range of colors, from red, orange, and yellow foods to those that aregreen or blue-purple, gives you a good mix of these phytonutrients (literally,"plant nutrients"), chemical compounds plants make that give them colour, fragrance, and taste. They are needed for recovery because, in our body, they function as antioxidants (which destroy dangerous free radicals), dampen inflammation, and otherwise strengthen the body's ability to detoxify harmful substances.

Give your liver a break and go organic. After all, this busy organ has already struggled enough, detoxifying all the alcohol that has come its way. Lighten the load of pesticides that it also must break down, by starting to shop for organic ingredients.

In this book you will find lots of different ingredients for your everyday cooking needs. Try them today and see what a balanced meal can do for your hangover recovery.