A Simple Way to Improve Digestion

November 18, 2011 By: Victor Brick

There are two parts to a healthy diet; nutrition, or what you eat, and nourishment, or what you actually absorb from what you eat. In many ways, nourishment is the more important of the two. Nourishment, of course, has to do with digestion. And one of the best ways to improve digestion is to drink something hot before a meal to prepare the stomach for digestion. The best thing to drink is hot tea or hot water with lemon. The Chinese have been endorsing this health tip for centuries. Herbal teas or ginger teas are best. Unfortunately, coffee does not qualify!

According to Dr. Raymond Moore, a warm drink prepares the stomach for digestion by stimulating the glands on the stomach walls.  To be easiest on the digestive system you want the water, or tea, warm but not too hot. The fluid should be about body temperature or 98 to 100 degrees In addition to helping with digestion, if you drink hot water or tea first thing in the morning it will help flush out the kidneys and will help the bowels move regularly and naturally

You do not want to drink something cold, either first thing in the morning or even with your meals as the body needs to work to warm up cold fluid, thus affecting digestion. In addition, when a cold fluid mixes with food in the stomach the result is a thicker composition that is harder to digest.

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