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7 Top Tips for a healthy family digestion
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healthy digestion is really the key to good health. Here are some ways to ensure that you and your family are looking after your gut and building resilience to keep a strong immunity – managing a common cold to autoimmune illnesses such as food allergies and asthma.
alleviated. Pasta can easily be replaced with rice or potatoes in a meal.
When it comes to intolerances, autoimmune diseases and allergies…
The Kiss approach to food
Keeping it super simple when it comes to recipes and ingredients is one good way to help a strong digestion – try making smaller, healthier meals using fewer, better quality and healthier ingredients.
sure to take the time to enjoy the food you have prepared – chew your food properly and keep the conversation and mood light during mealtimes. Make sure you’re drinking enough water and other unsweetened and non-caffeinated drinks and avoid anything fizzy at mealtimes as this can easily make you feel bloated and uncomfortable. Remember that regular exercise also helps to keep digestion healthy and regular, ensuring that digestive muscles and detoxing processes are active and working properly.
Eat meals at the same time each day. For example, breakfast between 7-8, lunch between 12-1pm and dinner at 5-6pm. Or whichever schedule best suits you and your family. That way, you can better monitor any possible changes in your digestion or the digestive habits of your children. Start with a few simple recipes – for example try making your own tomato-based pasta sauce. You can add cream for a richer sauce. Or a small tin of tuna and some black olives for a different night of week. For another teatime treat, add some courgettes, red peppers and a diced aubergine for your own twist on a ratatouille. Eat lots of fresh and cooked fruit and veggies that are in season (they are usually cheaper then, too!). And be
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Start the day with a long glass of water and be sure to drink between 6-8 glasses a day, more if it’s hot or you’ve been doing a lot of sport or activity that causes you to sweat.
If you feel that some foods cause bloating and or tummy issues, or make you feel tired or bring you out in a rash, then eat less of them or eliminate them from your diet for a while and see if the symptoms are
If you think you might have an intolerance or an allergy to a certain food or food group then be sure to get yourself tested for it so you’re absolutely sure of the cause. It’s important to continue eating the foods you suspect may be the cause of your symptoms so that the test results reflect your diet including the troublesome foods. Be sure not to make any changes to your or your family diet without consulting a medical and nutritional professional, as you may risk excluding a food group altogether and this could end in a nutritional deficiency. The exception of course, is in cases of severe allergic reactions to foods, such as nuts, which can in extreme cases be fatal. Any extreme symptoms should be checked out straightaway.
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For more information on how to keep your digestion healthy visit: https://www.nhs.uk/ live-well/eat-well/common-digestiveproblems-and-how-to-treat-them/
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