This is your chance: eat your dinner as lunch

My lockdown has a part 1 and a part 2. One half my boyfriend was working at home, the second half he was not. Now that we have a mode of working from home together, we have changed our routine: we eat our dinner as lunch and our lunch as dinner. Smart and healthy, say experts.

As a little girl, I went once a week to my grandparents for a warm meal at noon. They always did that because my grandfather was a contractor and did physical work. He would quickly drive home after a morning of work, and there would be large plates of pea soup, mashed dishes, or an impressive stack of pancakes on the table. I would nibble on some soup or a cracker around lunch. Until now, because it might just be that I eat grilled eggplants with homemade tomato sauce from the oven later.

Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper, you might know the saying. It’s there for a reason. Only we have now gotten used to doing it the other way around. We hardly have breakfast, take a bit more for lunch, and end with a large meal.

Our day and night rhythm is not made to digest a heavy meal in the evening, says the head of Gastroenterology Patrick Okolo III. He deals daily with the gastrointestinal system. Eating a substantial meal in the evening can even lead to digestive problems in the long term. And we certainly don’t want that. Okolo also explains that it can even cause sleep problems. If you have those, then a change is worth trying.

Working from home therefore offers a solution. It is very easy to have an extensive breakfast, eat your warm meal as lunch, and around seven make a sandwich or a soup. After a hearty lunch, you also have plenty of time to take an extra walk if it feels a bit heavy on your stomach, while you almost never do that in the evening and roll into bed with a heavy feeling.

And suddenly I see Italians eating pasta around two in the afternoon. They haven’t been looking at it so badly all this time.

Source: HuffPost