Global Health Trax News: 5 Important Tips to Improve Your Digestion

Aug. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- It’s late at night and you’re driving home from a late stay at the office. You skipped breakfast, worked through your lunch and dinner, and now you’re starving. And the yellow glow from those golden arches is pulling you in like the light at the end of the tunnel. With a slight twinge of guilt, you hit the drive thru and gobble down the greasy mess that is fast food.

Our cravings have beaten the best of us. We all could use a little help with eating better. Unfortunately, feeding our taste buds before we feed our body, has a drastic impact on our digestive health. By lowering your digestive health, you have just compromised the health of the rest of your body.

Here at Global Health Trax, we’ve come up with a few tips and tricks to help you improve YOUR digestive, and overall, health. So here are 5 Important Tips to Improve Your Digestive Health:

   1. Choose top quality, fresh organic foods, and incorporate a healthy mix of raw and cooked foods- Obviously a good digestion system is going to begin with a good diet. Remember there is a direct link between the quality of your food and the quality of your digestive health.
   2. Chew thoroughly- As simple as this seems, most people don’t chew their food properly-making digestion of the food harder when it hits your stomach. The digestion of carbohydrates begins with saliva and enzymes. The enzymes in your mouth and saliva not only help break down your food, they also attack bacteria.
  3.  Pay attention to digestive enzymes-your food moves from your stomach to your small intestine, where 90% of nutrients are absorbed.
       - Taking digestive enzymes with each meal, like Active Digestive Enzymes can help your body properly digest foods. They improve your body’s ability to extract nutrients from the foods you eat. All these enzymes help you avoid the gas, bloating and other digestive discomforts that often result when your body lacks the digestive enzymes necessary to break down and assimilate your foods.
  4.  Incorporate prebiotics and probiotics- Probiotics are a valuable part of a healthy diet, and may play an important role in sustaining overall intestinal health.
        -  The prevalence of intestinal imbalance makes a focus on probiotics essential. Prevention of overgrowth before it occurs is clearly the better alternative. Probiotics are a safe, cost-effective, and natural approach that may help act as a barrier against microbial infection such as yeast overgrowth-which can lead to leaky gut, an overabundance of pathogenic bacteria and yeast (like candida) and illness. Probiotic-rich fermented foods and drinks add healthy microflora to your intestines, bringing your intestinal health back into balance.
      -  Including probiotic-rich fermented foods, like cultured vegetables and probiotic liquids has been key to transforming people’s health.
   5. Hydrate-Soda and coffee dehydrate your body, which can also sap your energy.      
Drinking filtered water, organic herbal teas and probiotic liquids provide energy and hydration. Being dehydrated, along with drinking these acidic beverages really takes a toll on your body’s digestive health. Since it requires a lot of energy for your body to warm up cold liquids, stick with room temperature water and beverages or warm tea.

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