What happens to your body when you eat a Thanksgiving dinner

Here is a look in the interior works of your body in Turkey.


Thanksgiving is there again, and if you are one of the people who use the holidays likeAn excuse for stuffing your silly face, we do not judge. But we are curious aboutWhat happens to your body on Thanksgiving.

Giving cravings - then then breastfed on the sofa with your high-level button - is the holiday is all. But after the big meal enters your stomach, the situation inside is anything but serene. In fact, your whole body passes overdrive the second that you feel the breakdown of holidays.

Here,Leah Kaufman, Ms. RD, CDN, a Dietitian based in New York, and Lisa Moskovitz, Rd, founder ofNY NUTRITION GroupExplain exactly how your system processes with the overload of Thanksgiving dinner.

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When you walk in the kitchen

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"The second you enter the kitchen and get a breath of theTurkey And other holiday rates, gastric fluids and other enzymes needed to digestion begin to secreter inside the stomach, damping the digestive system for the upcoming meal, "says Kaufman.

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After the first aperitif

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"Once you started chewing the first bit of food, the stomach starts immediately to grow because it knows that more food is about how it will be digested," Kaufman said. Gastrointestinal (IM) channels also had benefits a bit because he knows that more food is on the way. "This invites more digestive enzymes to free from stomach, pancreas and intestine," says Kaufman. "Insulin, the hormone that helps glucose passes blood into the cells, is also released when you start to nosh and food sugar enters the blood. This then triggers a release of the hormone, the leptin. which helps the brain to record that we eat and allow greater secretion of insulin. "

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Five minutes at the meal

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"Once you start digging in Carb- andSugar-loaded dishes Asmashed potatoes andPadding, your body releases serotonin, sensation-good hormone, "says Kaufman. This is the moment you wait all the month: Carb-O-Bliss.

Ten minutes at the meal

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"The serotonin then activates the reward system in the brain, which tells you:" It tastes great, I would like others "when you eat something delicious," Kaufman said. "That explains why it's so difficult to say" no "on the day of Turkey."

Twenty minutes to the meal

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"When you start to fully feel sensory nerves in stomach hormones and appetite control, such as ghreline activating brain satiety centers, telling you that you have eaten enough. However, these signals are Easy to ignore if others around you are always nibbling. Far or spread seems particularly attractive, "says Kaufman. In addition, if you have eaten very quickly, your brain may not get the signal that you are Full until you have already served a few seconds.

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Five minutes after your last dessert bite

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After your last bite of pie, "the stomach secretes enzymes and acids that help break down your meal into smaller pieces so that it can possibly integrate into the small intestine," says Moskovitz. "Foiling and water-based foods are then decomposed into liquid, but fatty foods like mashed potatoes of grown mother's buttered puree stick into the stomach as they are not able to break down too quickly, which causes this uncomfortable,inflated feeling. "

Fifteen minutes after dessert

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"At present, all your food has been faded from the stomach in the small intestine. Once arrived, it indicates the release of pancreas and gallbladder enzymes that helps digest carbohydrates and proteins and break amino acid food and simple sugars to absorb blood circulation, "says Moskovitz.

Thirty minutes after dessert

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Feel tired again? Yup, that's what we thought. "WhileMany people are asleep after eating their thanksgiving dinnerTurkey is not to blame, "says Moskovitz." There is simply not enough tryptophan in a standard portion of the meat to have this type of effect. "

Instead, fatigue is probably the result of your stuffed stomach. "The blood rushes extremities into the abdomen to help the digestion process, which causes feelings of fatigue," says Moskovitz.

Two hours after dessert

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Your liver begins to break your nutrient dinner that your body can absorb and use to stay healthy. "At this point, your body will also start using the food you have eaten for energy. All you do not burn later tonight will be stored as fat," says Moskovitz.

Two days after Thanksgiving

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Finally, you excreted your turkey meal. All sitting in your stomach giving you a swollen median must finally be out of your system. Only 363 days until the next Thanksgiving!

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