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1. Spend more time chewing your food. Chew about 30-40 times or until the food is liquified.
2. A meal usually takes 20 minutes or more to eat, not 5!
3. Chew with your mouth closed. Swallowing air contributes to indigestion.
4. Make water your only liquid.
5. Don't overeat!
6. Drink water 1/2 hour before meals, and an hour or more after.
7. Consume at least 8 cups of water a day. More when excercising.
8. Do not undercook foods at must be cooked to digest. Semi-cooked pasta, barley, rice, beans etc.. that are not digested get dumped into the intestines only to rot and ferment. This may slightly increase the G.I. rating, but its far better as the food actually gets broken down and used properly by the body.
7. Eat foods with more fiber to help digestion. Like brussel sprouts, brocoli, cabbage, spinach, flax seeds, beans, brown rice, barley, fruits, figs, slow cooking oatmeal etc.
8. Don't eat fruit with vegetables. Fruit digests much quicker then vegetables, thus it can promote premature digestion and/or rancidness if it remains in the stomach for too long.
9. Don't chew gum. The flavour will get the digestive juices going and put unnessary strain on your body.
10. Try to eat your vegetables raw more often. Raw vegetables digest in 1/2 to 1/3 the time of cooked ones. Transit time (the time it takes food to travel though the body and be exited) is also decreased from 40-100 to 24-36 hours. This can greatly reduce 'time-induced' fermentation.. Cooking anything at over 117 F for over 3 minutes kills all the digestive enzymes, and 20-30% of the vitamins and minerals.
11. If you must cook vegetables then lightly steam them. This results in less vitamin/mineral/enzyme loss then boiling and frying.
Heres some supplements that you can take. I do not think are not neccessary if you eat right:
1. Acidophilus can be useful. It adds “friendly” bacteria to help ward off yeast and candida keeping the colon and intestines clean and healthy. If you take an antibiotic this is a must!!!
2. Raw ginger is very effective at decreasing bloating.
3. Sprouts have enzymes that assist digestion.
4. Garlic destroys unwanted bacteria in the bowels.
Avoid:
1. Antibiotics. They can lead to the overgrowth of abnormal flora in the gastrointestinal tract (bacteria, parasites, candida, fungi)
2. Overconsumption of refined carbohydrate products.
3. Steroids, common over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen and aspirin.
4. Alcohol, caffeine and stress.
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