Natural Health – Preparing Your Belly For Turkey

As you prepare your menus, your invitations, your shopping lists, and your homes for Thanksgiving this Thursday, you need to add one extremely important item to your list: preparing your own tummy tuck. Now you might be thinking “what the hell does he mean by that?”

Well let me ask you this…

…how did you feel the last time you ate a holiday dinner that included hors d’oeuvres, wine, bread filling, meat, potatoes, cruciferous vegetables, and cake topped with whipped cream or ice cream?

It’s not unusual for people to complain of eating too much, but the complaint is often accompanied by bloated groans and grunts of pain. This discomfort can be serious! I know I’ve been there! – and I want to do the best I can to avoid it – without depriving myself of all food. Even if it’s organic and whole, the combination of those foods can wreak havoc on our GI system.

So what can we do to prepare our own stomach for these delicacies?

Two things, and you can get started right away.

I.-acidophilus

II. – digestive enzymes (Excerpt from the Blog November 20)

Additional Information:

I. Take your acidophilus or probiotics daily to help populate your gut with some good bacteria, the kind that will help balance the ecological terrain of your internal environment. It’s important to take them on an empty stomach, even if you read some labels that say to take them with food.

In fact, I have found less expensive acidophilus (the kind they sell at pharmacies or places like CVS) that claim to be taken with food. My guess is that they don’t have much or any living culture in them; if they did, they wouldn’t tell you to take them with food! Taking a good quality acidophilus on an empty stomach helps ensure that the bacteria take in and are not diluted by the food.

In addition to taking acidophilus/probiotic capsules, there are other ways to introduce these good live cultures into your womb: yogurt (preferably unsweetened), kefir, and cultured foods like cultured vegetables (culturedvegetables.com).