The dishes prepared for the Easter meal should be balanced. To avoid overeating during the Easter holidays, up to 40% of the content on the plate should be meat and 60% should be vegetables. To avoid indigestion, one should drink a glass of red dry wine, eat fruit and take a break of several hours between meals. Nutritionist Sergiu Munteanu has told IPN that one should only taste the good during the first Easter meal.

According to the nutritionist, the persons who fasted should return to a normal eating regime gradually. After only tasting the food, the body will be more prepared to digest meats products. To avoid stress after eating plenty of meat, one should drink a glass of red wine and eat fruit, such as pineapple, grapefruit and kiwi, to ease digestion.

Sergiu Munteanu noted the stomach, pancreas, liver and other organs of the digestive system will be affected if one eats too much meat during the feast. “If you returned from church, only taste the blessed dishes. After a particular period of time, you can eat meat in larger amounts, but together with elements for digestion. You can taste all the types of dishes, but together with vegetables, which should be the main food, not meat in different forms,” he recommended.

If these main rules are not respected, those who fasted and who ate almost nothing on black Friday and those who suffer from gastrointestinal diseases, such as chronic gastritis, chronic hepatitis, chronic cholecystitis and chronic pancreatitis, will suffer.

The nutritionist noted the combination of meat and alcoholic drinks is very noxious for the pancreas. That’s why the alcoholic beverages should be limited in volume. The red dry wine is preferred on the Easter meal. Those who are on a diet owing to health problems should not eat fried, salty, sweet and fat food.