Nutrition For Digestive Health:
Controlling Your Diet Thru
Types Of Alternative Medicine

Our nutrition for digestive health is not some complex equation per many types of alternative medicine. Actually every organ, cell, membrane, drop of blood etc. in the human body has the capability of intelligence, according to ancient alternative therapy procedures, to process, breakdown and then combine again into a fully functioning healing machine. Our bodies themselves are in a constant state of regeneration. All of this remarkable recovery process though is dependent on the nutrition for digestive health we receive on a daily basis.

For optimum health, it has been researched and catalogued, our nutritive health does seem to rely on six distinct tastes that we need to receive on a daily basis. Each of these do fulfill a required response within our bodies. So for the optimal health and healing powers of the immune system, try to complement your daily diet with the following:

• Sweets: this group includes dessert, sugar, honey, rice, pasta, milk, cream or butter

• Sour: comes from lemon, cheese, yogurt, plums or vinegar

• Salty: any kind of salty foods

• Pungent: chili peppers, cayenne, ginger or any hot and spicy foods

• Bitter: the best source is from fresh greens like endive, spinach or romaine lettuce

• Astringent: this group of foods includes beans, lentils, apples, pears or pomegranates

Tips For Strengthening Your Digestive System

• Find a quiet place free of constant distractions or interruption

• Sit down- there should be no eating on the run or eating while working

• Take a few extra minutes at the end of your meal and stay calm. Give your digestive system time to start its work calmly.

• Never eat when you are in an argument or very upset. Calm down first.

• Avoid over-eating. Never fill your stomach to the point of being stuffed. Your stomach needs some extra space for the gastric juices to do their job of mixing your stomach's contents.

• Avoid super cold food and drinks. Your digestive system actually needs "heat and fire" to do its job. Constantly adding cold food and liquids means enough heat is not generated for the gastric juices to do their job.

• Eat at a moderate pace- don't scarf it all down. This is easier than it sounds if you just chew each bite before it gets swallowed.

• Space the foods you ingest(approximately 3-6 hours) so the digestive system has time to digest one meal before you give it another.

Your current nutrition for digestive health plan may require a few meal or dietary changes, but if followed, your "gut" will thank you for it.

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