7 tips for a good digestion and a proper intestinal transit

Although its flavor is slightly different, the whole grains are rich in vitamins and minerals very beneficial to our stomach and to facilitate our digestions

And you... How you feed? Are that they eat quickly and with the schedule very fair? Do you usually drink water while you lunch or dinner? Do you like hot dishes?

We all have our hobbies, our tastes, but this does not mean that they are always the most appropriate or healthy. Enjoy a good digestion requires also "brain foods", i.e., do it calmly and knowing some small tips that we will explain right now.

Will you them you lose?

1. would you like to lose weight with health? It is eaten with calm

You can make the Council look you something absurd. How does eating slowly with be able to lose weight? It's simple, takes note of this information:

The satiating effect comes to our organism to 20 minutes after starting a meal. Is when our brain secretes a hormone that offers you to stomach the feeling of "being filled", of "full respect".
We feed ourselves with haste this whether to translate to having to eat much more food, to commit excesses and forcing our body to have to perform a long and heavy digestion.

The secret lies first and foremost in chewing slowly, because although it may not sound strange digestion starts in the mouth and not in the stomach.
It is in the mouth where we produce saliva, an essential alkaline that is going to help the food is dissolved and processed much better.

While we boday calmly, we enjoy much more of the flavors, we tasted the food with pleasure, and also to give information to the pancreas and the gallbladder that are going to get food to the body.
It is time to release bile and other chemicals to carry out a proper digestion.

2 water? Best before or after meals

Quiet, nothing happens if you want to join that great dinner with a small glass of wine. We promote the flavor of foods and we get many healthy antioxidants for our organism.

However, it is advisable to know that it is better to drink water before or after meals. For what reason?

Liquids, usually hinder the salivation of the food.
The most appropriate is eaten that glass of water before or after, because that way we encourage salivation.

Is for this reason that the soups, for example, consume always as first courses.
Discover why it is appropriate to start the day with a glass of water.

3. the benefits of raw foods

Don't panic, we are not going to recommend that you consume raw fish or chicken. However, if we tell you that will be very suitable for your digestion eat raw vegetables.

There are many foods that passed through cooking processes lose many of their proteins and these so important enzymes that help us to digest better.

So, whenever possible, consumed the following vegetables in raw form, even in small amounts:

• Onion
• Pepper
• Garlic
• Broccoli
• Kale
• Cabbage
• Spinach
• Endives
• Lettuce
• Celery
• Carrot

4. Yes to the fermented food

In our space you have often spoken of the benefits consume kefir, Greek yogurt or any other probiotic rich in those as healthy microorganisms to our digestion and keep the good balance of bacterial flora.
It is interesting to know that each country has its own typical fermented food, have the miso, the abovementioned kefir and different types of yogurt that you can easily find in your supermarket.

It is recommended to consume it every day in your breakfast. Going to thank our intestinal transit and the immune system.

5. Yes to whole foods

Oats, Brown rice, whole grain bread are essential keys not only to enjoy a good digestion, but also to take care of our general health (not those made with refined flour).

It can be that it does cost you a bit more chew that rye bread, or with that flour your desserts and sweets have a slightly different flavor, but we assure you that your stomach will notice, and that you will have multiple vitamins and minerals. The effort is worth it.

6 artificial or very processed foods? We like, but better in moderation

With artificial feed we refer to soft drinks with gas, these colors and flavors of spectacular, the food prepared drinks, and also how not to processed as fried potatoes carbohydrates.
Nothing happens if we give a treat once in a while, but be very aware that these foods are not digested well, and inflamed our intestines.

Discover how they affect drinks with gas to your health

7 manage that fearsome enemy... your stress!

If there is a clear enemy to enjoy a good digestion is stress. You should know that the digestive system is controlled by the nervous system and some brain hormones alike.

Hence, any problem, any alteration that may cause, for example, to free cortisol in blood, is going to do to change many of our basic functions.

Appears the inflammation, stomach acid level is altered to the point of favoring the appearance of ulcers... We must avoid it, we must learn to manage stress every day:

• Search time for you and you prioritize a little more.
• Go for a walk outdoors, get swimming, yoga...
• Take life more calmly and cultivate your inner well-being. This results in your physical and emotional health, and of course... in a better digestion

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