3 Simple Remedies for Indigestion

Believe it or not it is estimated that anywhere up to or even over 90 percent of Americans suffer from some form of indigestion at some stage. Whilst indigestion might not initially seem to be a problem, once it happens you you might change your mind. For this reason so many Americans are searching for safe and effective remedies for indigestion.

Digestion is one of the most important physiological processes in your body. It’s not just important to reduce the discomfort associated with indigestion for the sake of feeling better, improving the overall by digestion process is extremely important to your health.

It is through the process of digestion that your body absorbs various essential nutrients. Whilst eating well, or in other words eating the right foods that will provide you with all of the appropriate nutrients, is very important, it is only half the equation. If you eat the right foods but the nutrients aren’t adequately digested and absorbed into your system then you are not getting the optimum result from a good diet.

So poor digestion is not just a question of discomfort, it also affects your overall health.remedies for indigestion

Whilst there are medical conditions which may cause indigestion it is also possible to cause it through various eating habits, as well as what you eat. Lets look at 3 important tips to help improve your digestion and reduce the discomfort associated with indigestion as well as to improve the likelihood that your body will properly absorb the nutrients in your food.

1. Eat Slowly and Carefully.

You may have heard that it’s important to chew every mouthful of food 30 times. Whilst we’re not suggesting that you count every single chew (which could become extremely tedious) we are suggesting that the basic principle behind this is good.

Many people gobble their food too fast. Maybe you’re late for the game, maybe your favourite television program is about to begin or maybe it’s just a bad habit. But for so many people a meal is something to get over with as fast as possible.

The entire process of digestion begins in your mouth. Through the process of chewing you break down the food into much smaller pieces making it easier to digest. If you don’t chew enough the food is left in large pieces which are more difficult to digest.

One of the best ways to slow down your meal is to make it an important occasion. Eat with other people and see it as an opportunity for social contact or family contact, and something to be relished rather than something to be at an end as soon as possible.

2. Cook Your Food.

Some research has shown that eating raw food may be better for you because the nutrients in food can be leached out, changed or destroyed in the cooking process. However the cooking process breaks down the cellulose in the walls of cells in raw food. The nutrients are found in the cells, and cooking helps begin the process of releasing the nutrients.

People do not digest cellulose well. In fact eating raw food can actually reduce the likelihood of extracting all the nutrients from the food because much of it is not sufficiently released because the cellulose has not been sufficiently digested to release it.

That’s not to say you should cook your food within an inch of its life. Overcooked food is lifeless and dull and and uninteresting. Particularly when you’re cooking vegetables make sure they are not cooked until they are mush.

3. Experiment with What You Eat, And Keep a Diary

Different foods affect the digestive process differently in different people. For example very spicy foods can cause severe indigestion for some people whilst others can eat them all day long with no ill effects.

Buy a notebook and make a note of what you ate each day when you suffered from indigestion. Keep a digestion diary, remember to update it every day when you suffer from indigestion, and after a significant period of time, namely after quite a few instances when you’ve suffered, go through your diary and try and identify foods which are common to many or all of the days when you suffered bad digestion.

Try eliminating those foods from your diet. See if that helps. Eliminate the foods one by one, not all in one go, if there is more than one food that is common to all days of indigestion, so that you can be certain of which food has made a difference and which has not.

Experiment with different foods that you may not have eaten before to widen the range of foods that agree with you whilst eliminating foods that do not agree with you.

And remember, as we’ve said before, indigestion can be caused by medical problems, and if you are suffering badly it’s always worth consulting your doctor first.

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