Tuesday 5 May 2015

What Can You Do To Improve Digestive Health?

Digestive problems are extremely common. Incidence of certain illnesses, such as IBS and Crohn’s disease, appear to be more prevalent now than ever before. It’s important that we maintain good digestive health because it will make us feel so much better. Digestion governs everything – if you don’t have the right amount of vitamins, minerals and nutrients, you will feel poorly. Here, we have developed a guide to help you to improve your digestive system.




1.Eat a healthy diet: you need to provide your body with all the nutrients, vitamins, and minerals that it needs, and you can only do this by providing it with a balanced diet that contains plenty of vegetables, plenty of roughage (e.g. whole-wheat pasta and bread) some fruit and some meat. This will make your digestive system work less hard than it would if it were to have to process bad foods, such as white grains and take away.

2.Exercise regularly: exercise ensures that your metabolism remains fast enough to digest food at the right speed. If it’s too slow, the digestive system slows down. This leads to a host of problems. For example, it will lead to constipation because the food will stay in the intestines too long and the intestines will squeeze out too much water, making the stools hard to pass.

3.Take active digestive enzymes. Enzymes help to break down food. This means the body needs to use less energy breaking down the food, thereby providing you with greater energy. Active digestive enzymes also help to break the food down into its nutrient, vitamin and mineral parts. This means the body absorbs more of these, rather than flushing some of them out of the system before the food has been processed to that degree.

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