Now that we’re past the worst of the holiday food-binge season, it’s time to re-focus and get serious about solving some of our food-related issues.
Many people find that during the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, they abandon many (or all) of the good habits that keep their digestion healthy.
If that’s you, then you’ll likely benefit from this list of six acid reflux no-no foods that will get you back on track.
If you have found yourself back on the over-the-counter reflux medications because of the holiday season, never fear. Changing just a few or even all of these mistakes can set you right again, so you can leave the drugs at the pharmacy and out of your body.
If you have acid reflux, remember to avoid these common mistakes:
1 – Very large meals- It can be tempting at holiday time to indulge all night long at various parties and family gatherings. It’s part of the practice of celebration. But now that the freezer is stocked with leftovers, try to limit the volume of how much you are eating.
Instead of 3 huge meals, which causes nothing but pain and digestive problems…reduce the amount of food by ¾ and eat more frequently during the day. Snack on fresh fruit and fiber-packed vegees.
2 – Caffeinated beverages- Unless your drink is a cup of green tea, whatever beverage you are consuming that has caffeine needs to go. Caffeine is a known trigger for reflux, migraine, and high blood pressure. Go green or lay off and switch to water.
3 – Sugared soft drinks- This class of drinks is caffeine’s evil twin. There is simply no nutritional benefit to sodas, sports drinks, or juice cocktails with HFCS. The sugar content and the fizzy nature of the soda causes more harm than any benefit you’d ever see, so switch out all those calorie bombs for some cold, purified water.
4 – Too much alcohol- It is true that a glass of red wine with dinner aids in digestion, helps fight high blood pressure, and provides a host of anti-oxidant chemicals, but it is also true that alcohol in excess breaks down the mucous in the stomach.
This precious substance is what protects your stomach from digesting itself as it wards off the damaging effects of the acid. With reflux, you don’t need any help with the acid part. Put down the wine glass after 1 serving and steer completely clear of hard liquors like scotch, tequila, rum, and bourbon.
5 – Milk Chocolate- You’re not out of the woods yet, holiday-wise. Valentine’s Day is on its way and whatever confections you were able to avoid during the Christmas season might be waiting for you in a different package in February. Chocolate is packed with sugar and fat, not to mention caffeine, and all 3 are on the frequent offender’s list for acid reflux flare-ups.
6 – Animal product overload- From turkey to ham to crown roast, and everything in between (like eggnog and whipped cream topping), meats and dairy products are a one-way ticket to reflux misery.
We overdo it during the holidays anyway, where balance should be in the front of our plate-loading strategy, but that frequently takes a back seat to the merry-making.
If you are suffering the flare-ups, remember that your meat servings should never be larger than a deck of cards- at ANY meal. Dairy is the same way. Switch out these high-fat, high calorie foods for plant-based foods like quinoa and legumes that are also very high in protein. These plant proteins are also great for digestion because of their very high soluble fiber content.
A little better planning and a re-commitment to valuing the peace of your stomach over the short-term pleasure of the taste buds will pay off enormously after only a few days of smarter eating.
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Being in the front line, the gastrointestinal tract is exposed to the greatest danger if the diet we eat is not suited to us.
To anyone holding the view that some foods are unnatural and harmful components of our diet it is quite obvious that the gastrointestinal tract, being in the front line, is exposed to the most danger. The idea of introducing a low carbohydrate diet as a general mode of therapy for disorders of this system is therefore logical, even if contrary to what is advised. Seeing that most of the dramatic increase in stomach disorders, leading to cancers further down the dietary system, i.e, colon cancer, coeliac disease, have increased substantiallly with the media hyped 'low fat' 'no fat' high carbohydrate diet. While at the same time telling us of the need for "ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS."
Gastric reflux disease or heartburn is caused by a backflow of stomach acid into the oesophagus, a condition that results in inflammation of the oesophagus. Because this acid is produced to break down proteins it is erosive in nature and can damage the lining of the oesophagus. There are many factors that can lead to the developement of acid reflux disease but the most common is incorrect foods.
A clue to the culprit lies in the fact that gastric influx is often the first sympton to disappear when carbohydrates are reduced in the diet. However severe, and even if made worse by factors like the backflow gastric juice into the oesophagus in hiatus hernia, the chances of success are excellent. If patients come back with the complaint that the diet is no longer effective and their heartburn has returned, a closer look usually reveals that carbohydrates have again crept into the diet.
A helful tip for those suffering gastro backflow especially at night, and being awakened by the choking feeling caused by the acid reflux; prop up the head of the bed by putting a three or four inch wood support underneath the frame of the bed. Everyone who I have told to do this have all said it helped.
The real improvement should come by diet change, eat less carbohydrates and more natural fats in ones diet. NOT vegetable oils, or margarine, or anything low fat. Make sure it is natural fats. Organic butter, raw milk, and all the raw dairy products made from the natural unadulterated milk that people all over the world have eaten and drank for millenia. Do not compare the 'dairy' products including milk that supermarkets sell, with natural milk and its dairy derivatives. It is like comparing night with day.
An interesting point that will show if you are eating correctly, is that, like in the animal kingdom where cows are kept out to grass, their natural food, their dropping are either don't smell or have a not to unpleasant smell. The same is true of all other animals that eat their natural diet – including carnivorous animals. Compare this with the noisome smell you are likely to carry into the house if you walk into some dog dirt in a city street. This is because domestic dogs do not eat a natural diet. The same is true of humans. Do you pass wind? When you do, does it tend to clear the room? When you go to the lavatory, do you have to open the window and suggest it might be wise for the next person to wait a few minutes for the air to clear? This and more is evidence of a bad diet leading to all kinds of gastro and intestinal and colon problems, the foregoing are warnings of trouble to come.
A good diet will bring about proper absorption of ones food, leading to a healthier body, with the end result that your good diet and its end result will be less wasteful, and less offensive to yourself and others as your body absorbs all that the good food offers it, and the waste that is left, is just that, waste, making the stools more solid as the body has taken out what it needs, and their is far less chance of any gut, or colon problems, or smell.
I TAKE PROCICK ONE A DAY, ITS THE BEST AND ALWAYS TRY NOT TO OVER EAT, ANNA.