How to fight a swollen belly: the foods to choose and those to avoid

How to fight a swollen belly: the foods to choose and those to avoid

According to a study, only by eliminating foods that ferment too much in the body can the problem of a swollen belly be solved

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Swollen belly: even if the swimsuit test goes away, your problem remains an annoying abdominal swelling, very common in the female universe, know that the causes could be of various kinds.





From the "simple" presence of air in the belly to excessive stress, from laziness that keeps you glued to the sofa up to a 'wrong feeding. Only eliminating foods that ferment too much in the body in fact, the problem of a swollen stomach can be solved once and for all.

For the first time a diet has been subjected to a scientific study similar to those used to evaluate drugs and demonstrate their validity - against intestinal disorders and for irritable bowel syndrome - a research by the Sapienza of Rome, whose data were presented at the "Digestive Disease Week"In Washington and the workshop" The best nutritional education "which was held atExhibition of Milan.

The scholars put more than a hundred people on a particular type of diet, but the study only considered 75 of both genders, monitoring them for over 2 years and showing that a personalized diet allows improvements on the overall health of patients, if certain FODMAP foods are avoided, i.e. foods with high fermentation capacity.

These include foods containing oligosaccharides, such as legumes, vegetables such as artichokes, broccoli, garlic, fruits such as persimmons and watermelon and cereals (wheat and rye), some elements such as fructose (such as apple, pears, peaches, mangoes), lactose ( soft and fresh milk and cheeses), and finally polyols, contained in fruit (such as cherries, plums), vegetables (such as cauliflower, mushrooms) and sweeteners (mannitol, sorbitol and xylitol).

FOODS TO CHOOSE:

  1. Cereals such as spelled and gluten-free products
  2. Hard and aged cheeses, delactosed, soy or rice milk
  3. Fruits such as bananas, blueberries, grapefruits, kiwis, mandarins, lemons, oranges, grapes, raspberries, strawberries
  4. Vegetables such as celery, peppers, eggplant, lettuce, green beans, and squash
  5. Tomatoes
  6. Favorite sweeteners sucrose, glucose, maple syrup and sweeteners that do not end in "-ol"

FOODS TO AVOID:

  1. Among cereals, limit the consumption of wheat and rye (bread, pasta, couscous, crackers, biscuits)
  2. Among the fruit: apples, pears, apricots, cherries, peaches, mangoes, watermelons, persimmons, plums, plums
  3.  Among the sweeteners: honey, fructose and corn syrup, sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol
  4. Soft, fresh milk and cheeses (such as ricotta)
  5. Among the vegetables: artichokes, asparagus, beets, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, fennel, garlic, shallots, mushrooms, peas
  6. Among the legumes: chickpeas, lentils, beans, broad beans

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