Don’t stop at eating your salad and your veggies at the very start of the meal (See Action: First Course Green), but think about how our food is composed of different macronutrients – fibers, fat, proteins, carbohydrates – and know that eating the macronutrients in a particular order will help keep our blood sugars in check. The approach of eating food by category—first vegetables, then proteins and fats, followed by carbohydrates—aims to optimise digestion and potentially make meals, even those not typically deemed ‘healthy,’ a bit less detrimental to your health.
Starting with vegetables, which digest slowly, sets a pace that slows down the digestion of subsequent foods. This method can even apply to fast-food meals like burgers. If you eat the veggies of the burger – the tomato and salad pieces – first, then the meat or vegetarian/vegan alternative, and the bun last, you might lessen its ‘unhealthy’ impact.
