Updated : January 23, 2024 10:11 PM IST
Planning your diet in winter season requires a deep dive into your health and digestive system. The foods that you may be able to easily digest in other seasons may be twice as hard to digest in winter. In winter, people are less active and that is why the gut motility goes down.
They are loaded with trans fat, refined carbs, excess sodium and other unhealthy additives. These make it difficult to digest and it may cause heartburn and indigestion.
Milk and dairy products are healthy otherwise but in winter season you may face symptoms of lactose intolerance. If you face symptoms like gassiness, lose bowel movement, stomach pain, vomiting after drinking milk, it means that your body is unable to digest it. This may not happen to everyone but milk and dairy may be difficult to digest because of the presence of lactose.
Spicy foods especially the dishes garnished with a lot of red chilly powder can cause diarrhoea, water stool, indigestion and stomach pain.
Sugar is essentially not a very healthy choice of food. It is best to avoid refined sugar in every season. But, the body takes time to break down fructose in winters. It can lead to the growth of unhealthy bacteria and disrupt the gut microbiome.
Carbonated beverages contain soda which can cause bloating, gas and stomach pain.
In the colder months, our digestive system is already slow. Fatty foods in general require a lot of time to digest and in winters it is even slower. Moreover, fatty foods paired with lack of activity in winters can lead to weight gain.