Nutrition expert reveals why you should NEVER eat while flying... even in first class

Many travelers person a love-hate narration with airplane food.

But 1 fittingness and nutrition adept says helium would ne'er devour portion flying - adjacent erstwhile traveling successful archetypal people with restaurant-worthy dishes.

Speaking connected a caller podcast, Michael Sheedy, 31, warned the compartment unit and elevation makes it harder for nutrient to determination done the body.

This alteration successful aerial pressure, on with the question of the plane, means that digested nutrient can't determination efficiently to the tiny intestine. This tin origin tummy pain, bloating, state and marque it much hard to bash a fig two. 

For this reason, passengers with IBS mightiness find their symptoms flare up.  

Backing up his claims, New York-based gastroenterologist Dr Elena Ivanina, told to DailyMail.com that 'jet belly is so a existent phenomenon' and it is amended not to devour portion successful the air.

She explains: 'Not lone does travelling and associated clip changes, impaired slumber and altered eating schedules and nutrient choices disrupt digestion - but the existent enactment of flying changes digestion arsenic good owed to the compartment pressure.

'Gas successful the gut whitethorn grow erstwhile aerial unit decreases astatine higher altitudes and tin consciousness similar bloating, distention and urgency to walk gas. 

'In fact, studies person shown that successful astronauts going into space, they had an abnormal alteration successful tummy motility aft eating connected the archetypal fewer days of abstraction flight.' 

Being inactive for agelong periods of clip successful a confined abstraction tin besides lend to gassiness, on with making it harder for digested nutrient to determination to the tiny intestine.

Therefore, Dr Ivanina says it is champion to devour earlier and aft flying if possible. 

This particularly applies to passengers with preexisting digestive issues, specified arsenic Crohn's illness and ulcerative colitis, arsenic eating successful the aerial tin adhd to their discomfort.

This is due to the fact that slower digestion and constipation are much apt successful the pressurized environment.  

And successful presumption of drinks, Dr Ivanina advises staying wide of intoxicant and carbonated drinks and sticking to 'non-carbonated gentle h2o and teas.'

Fitness influencer Mr Sheedy does precisely this. He revealed his flying rituals connected the Wealthy Way podcast.

'So erstwhile you devour connected an airplane, your nutrient doesn't digest arsenic well, and it could origin gastrointestinal inflammation.

'So what I bash each clip I'm flying, adjacent if it's an earlier flight, I volition aftermath up, I won't eat.

'I'll conscionable bash coffee, water, and electrolytes connected the plane.

'[Even in] archetypal people I'm saying nary to the meal. Typically [the food] is not large either way.'

Even astatine the airport, Mr Sheedy says it is 'hard' to find steadfast food, truthful helium chooses to accelerated passim his voyage until helium reaches his last destination and helium tin yet person a meal.

He concludes: 'You know, not lone does that support my assemblage creation looking good, I consciousness better.

'And erstwhile I land, I tin devour immoderate I want.'

To debar state and bloating Turkish Airlines also advises passengers to spell to the bath earlier boarding a formation and connected long-haul, to locomotion astir the compartment each 2 hours. 

And if you bash determine to devour during a flight, the hose recommends doing truthful 'slowly,' arsenic 'air enters the digestive strategy each clip you swallow... swallowing excessively overmuch aerial tin origin bloating.'