Kerry McClure – Practical Wellness
May 27, 2015
5 Tips to Improve Digestion, Your Gateway To Health….
When we improve our digestion, we can boost our immune system, lose weight, feel less bloated, and uncover hidden food allergies. In other words: when we digest with ease, we look and feel fabulous!
Here are five simple tips to improve your digestion:
1. Slow down.
Stop and sit down when you eat. Your body needs your mind to be calm in order to digest. If you’re nervous, your digestive system is in “fight or flight” mode. It cannot work properly when it is stressed.
Before you eat, remember to take a deep breath. Be grateful for the food you’re about to eat. Also, check in with your body. Focus on being present in the moment and have awareness. Don’t shove food in your mouth as you’re running out the door or eat while standing at the counter. One of the suggestions I give my clients is every time you eat something, sit down to eat it.
2. Chew, chew, chew.
Digestion begins in your mouth. Remember when you were little and your mother would tell you slow down and chew your food so that you would not choke?
When you do not chew your food, it sets the stage for poor digestion. Poor digestion opens the door to weight gain, acne, constipation, and IBS, to name a few. Serious health issues are not far behind. Most importantly, when you do not digest properly your body cannot transform your food into energy.
3. Check out!
Put down the phone, blackberry, and iPad. Turn off the TV and computer and sit down and enjoy the activity of eating. Give yourself some quiet time so you can de-stress and digest! I know life gets busy. But living and eating this way is causing you to miss the moment you’re in.
Start by taking one minute out of your day to breathe and think of anything that makes you happy.
4. Get cultured.
Start adding a good, quality probiotic to your daily routine. Incorporating cultured foods and drinks to your life, such as yogurt, miso, dairy or non-dairy kefir, kefir water, kombucha, cultured vegetables, and other cultured foods is a great way to improve digestion and overall health. These foods have been around for centuries.
By adding these foods or another high quality probiotic to your lifestyle, you will lose weight, assimilate your nutrients better, have clearer skin, better sleep, and decrease your body’s inflammation. Preventing inflammation prevents disease.
5. Clean the junk off your plate.
Eat simple and eat clean. Our digestive system cannot digest junk. When we eat junk, we end up feeling like junk. I find that people often think that they are eating clean, but actually they’re eating foods that are wreaking havoc on their body and causing inflammation. Food either gives us inflammation or fuel. What is the food on your plate really doing for you?
Remember that what worked for you at one point in your life may not be working any more. Listen to the cues or signals your body is giving you.
Source of inspiration:
http://www.mindbodygreen.com/…/5-tips-to-improve-digestion-…
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