What is the most healthy dinner?

"Eat breakfast like a King, eat like a Prince, dinner like a pauper." Although the popular proverb now tells us that dinner should be light, we can give us some license

We often intend to feed ourselves in a more balanced manner but we have not always succeeded. Each meal of the day is important, but there is one that stands out because it plays a significant part in the problems of the liver, insomnia and overweight: dinner.

In this article we explain keys for dinner in a healthy way, which will give us immediately very important benefits for our health and for our beauty. We also propose some dinner so you can start from today itself.

Benefits and detriments of the dinner

Dinner is the last meal of the day, and its function is not going to bed on an empty stomach and contribute to a good night's sleep, but nevertheless should not be a dinner as nourishing as breakfast or lunch, since just going to expend energy at night. Therefore, it is important to do dinner early either light.
When we have dinner in a heavy way, too late, or including unhealthy foods, we can notice some of the following effects on our health:

• Insomnia, lack of rest and fatigue in the morning
• Haggard and off look on his face
• Fluid retention
• Constipation
• Mucus when you wake up
• Liver problems and indigestion, heartburn, flatulence, etc.
• Eventually, overweight or underweight

What time we have dinner?

Since we lay down our body begins to relax and allow our body cells to regenerate. According to traditional Chinese medicine, every hour there is an organ that regenerates especially:

• 23 to 1 hour: gallbladder
• 1-3 hours: liver
• 3 to 5 hours: Lung
• 5 to 7 hours: the large intestine
• 7 to 9 hours: stomach

If we therefore respect the biological rhythms of our body we have ended the digestion of the dinner to 11 pm at the latest, counting that digestion usually lasts between 2 and 3 hours. Why is the best time to dine before eight o'clock of the afternoon / evening.

What must contain a healthy dinner?

A balanced meal should contain the following:

• One of the vegetable, preferably cooked, although if digest it well can also be raw (salads for example), especially in times of heat.
• A part of protein low in fat: egg, fish, vegetable, seitan, cheese or yogurt, nuts, mushrooms
• A small part optional starch or cereal: is for bread, pasta, rice, potato, banana
• A small part of healthy fats: vegetable oils of first pressure in cold, nuts, egg yolk, yogurt, avocado.

What must it not contain a healthy dinner?

• An excess of starches or cereals, since provide us too much energy
• Sugars
• Sweet fruits, because they cause overweight if we eat them mixed with dinner
• Citrus fruits such as orange or tangerine, since they make it difficult for the rest
• Summer fruits rich in water, such as watermelon or melon, because they hinder the digestion
• Saturated fats (margarine, pastry, fried foods, red meat, etc.): because overload the liver and gallbladder
• Too much salt, that causes fluid retention
• Stimulants: coffee, tea, cola, etc.

Examples of healthy dinners

• Cream of vegetables and a bit of oats and shredded hard-boiled egg
• Vegetables sautéed with mushrooms and a whole wheat bread toast
• Yogurt with half banana and a handful of walnuts
• Soup vegetables and noodles and grilled fish
• Liquefied vegetable or gazpacho and tortilla
• Cream of vegetables and pears in the oven
• Vegetables with a little potato and roasted chicken
• Green Salad with fresh cheese and seeds
• Guacamole corn tortilla
• Lentil salad, grated carrot and mayonnaise sauce

Final note

If one day dine early or are going to perform some activity before bed can increase the amount of starch and cereal, and allow us for example a whole pizza with vegetables and mushrooms or a sandwich with lettuce, tomato and cheese. If we care midweek dinners, weekends can make any exception, although the next morning we will always notice if the dinner has been healthy or not according to the appearance and the energy with which us lift.

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