Top 10 Tips for Good Digestion

Whether you have no problems with your digestion or whether you suffer from conditions such as IBS or IBD’s. These tops tips to help maintain or improve your digestion will surely help.

1. Try and Eat your food in the order they digest.All foods and liquids take different time lengths to be digested. For example water and juices only take 20-30 minutes where as Meat and fish can take anything up to 3 hours to digest. So by having the quicker foods.liquids to digest first followed by the tougher ones such as meat will mean a much smoother and unclogged digestive system.

Here is how long different types of foods and drinks take to be digested.

Water & Juices: 20-30 minutes
Fruits, Smoothies, Soups: 30-45 minutes
Vegetables: 30-45 minutes
Beans, Grains, Starches: 2-3 hours
Meat, Fish, Poultry: 3 or more hours

2. Not Always Possible In Summer, Drink room temperature water,juices or hot liquids are more with your meal. Putting lots of ice in your drinks or having iced drinks can slow down the digestive process. By having drinks with your meal that are at room temperature or hot will promote proper digestion.

3. Eat at regular meals times. By eating regular meals at regular times has a regulating effect on your digestive system. ‘Regular in’ means ‘regular out’.

4. Watch the amounts of food you eat and your portion sizes. Did you know that overeating is the top cause of indigestion. Your brain will know you are full but won’t tell you until 10 minutes later.

5. Not chewing our food properly. Incomplete chewing and talking while eating can cause premature swallowing. By digesting large pieces of food it can lead to incomplete digestion.

6. Don’t rush while eating your meal and relax. If you eat when you are rushing increases your stress and slows down the digestive process. Make time to eat, it is much better for your digestion.

7. Sit properly and don’t slouch. By slouching or hunching you are putting extra pressure on your digestive system.

8. This one we have all heard of and that is not to eat too late at night. Our digestive system slows down in the evening so your body will not be able to digest all the food you have eaten and it will sit in your stomach. This can also cause disturbed sleep.

9. Not always possible, if you can take a walk after eating. This will lead to more complete digestion of your food and less digestive discomfort!

10. Finally the spinal twist. Spinal twists allow excess toxins in the digestive system to be released. Sit in a crossed legged sitting position and slowly turn to the right and hold while taking 5 deep breaths then repeat this process on the left side.

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