Who doesn’t like pizza?

If you are over 40, you may find that eating traditional pizza, with tomato sauce, cheese, and white flour makes you feel a little sick, or low energy, or angry, or slows your digestion. With meat, the effect is sometimes pronounced. Why?

It’s because pizza is not a healthy food. But, if you don’t eat it more than once per week, and you don’t eat too much of it at one sitting (1.5 slices max for a man, 1 slice for a woman or child), you may be okay.

Here are another few tricks:

1. Have soda or beer with your pizza (yin to balance the yang)
2. Have raw salad
3. Have an umeboshi plum afterwards (helps neutralize the blood)
4. Take a brisk walk afterwards
5. Make a pact so you don’t get into an argument
6. The day after pizza, have an Asian meals such as Thai, Vietnamese, or sushi (not chinese!)
7. Order a whole wheat crust
8. Go cheeseless!
9. Order veggies only, light cheese, or both
10. Make your own pizza with no tomato sauce

Mangia!